Fardon Richard, Furniss Graham (ed.) African Languages, Development and the State

Routledge, 2003. — 267 p. — ISBN 0-203-42257-0.This volume (first published 1994) is a path-breaking and much needed contribution to the study of the politics of language in modern Africa. Not only does it fill a critical gap in Africanist scholarship, its theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich essays directly engage some of the most pressing issues within both contemporary sociolinguistic theory and current debates about discourse of development.West AfricaPride and prejudice in multilingualism and development.
Official and unofficial attitudes and policy towards Krio as the main lingua franca in Sierra Leone.
The politics of language in Benin.
Minority language development in Nigeria: a situation report on Rivers and Bendel States.
Using existing structures: three phases of mother tongue literacy among Chumburung speakers in Ghana.Central and Southern AfricaThe language situation and language use in Mozambique.
Language and the struggle for racial equality in the development of a non-racial Southern African nation.
Dismantling the Tower of Babel: in search of a new language policy for a post-Apartheid South Africa.
Healthy production and reproduction: agricultural, medical and linguistic pluralism in a Bwisha community, Eastern Zaire.
Minority language, ethnicity and the state in two African situations: the Nkoya of Zambia and the Kalanga of Botswana.East AfricaLoanwords in Oromo and Rendille as a mirror of past inter-ethnic relations.
The metaphors of development and modernization in Tanzanian language policy and research.
Language, government and the play on purity and impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the vernaculars in Kenya.