25.African languages development and the state, African Languages Resources

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African languages, development and
the state
Multilingualism is a fact of African life; multilingualism is Africa’s lingua
franca. Why then is African multilingualism so often seen as a handicap to
development? The contributors to
African Languages, Development and
the State
argue that multilingualism needs to be developed as a strength,
not castigated as a failure.
The contributors—Africans and Europeans, language planners and
anthropologists—examine the rhetoric of language policy and also present
detailed case studies of local outcomes. They believe that African
language planning must be based on the researched facts of African life
and not on preconceived ideas of the relations that should hold between
entities called language, development and the state. Since most of Africa
has now gained over thirty years of post-colonial experience in language
planning, it is possible to assess the legacy of these years and to compare
the best and worst practices. Particular attention is paid to the Nigerian
experience which, as the most populous of the African states with many
years’ experience in the formulation of language policy, furnishes an
invaluable intra-African example for policy makers in other parts of
Africa, particularly in South Africa, where crucial decisions on language
policy are currently under discussion.
The essays in this volume clearly show that multiculturalism, pluralism
and multilingualism as facts of African life have to be seen positively as
resources upon which development must build and not as impediments to
national unity and development. The contributors’ cross-disciplinary
approach demonstrates the basic fact that all facets of social life, from the
farm and the factory to the home or the debating chamber, are embedded
in language. This volume will therefore appeal to a wide readership of all
those concerned with development policy in Africa—economists, political
scientists, language planners and anthropologists.
Richard Pardon
is Reader in West African Anthropology, and
Graham
Furniss
is Senior Lecturer in Hausa, both at the School of Oriental and
African Studies. London.
EIDOS (European Inter-University Development Opportunities Study-
Group) was founded in 1985 and brought together British, Dutch and
German anthropologists actively engaged in the study of development.
The broad purpose of EIDOS workshops has been to assess critically the
dissemination and specialization of anthropological and sociological
knowledge in different European centres and to further the understanding
of the ways in which that knowledge has directly influenced development.
Editorial Board
David Parkin (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London)
Hans-Dieter Evers (University of Bielefeld)
Philip Quarles van Ufford (Free University, Amsterdam)
Editorial Committee
Franz von Benda-Beckmann (Wageningen Agricultural University)
Elisabeth Croll (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Mark Hobart (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Rüdiger Korff (University of Bielefeld)
Norman Long (Wageningen Agricultural University)
Günther Schlee (University of Bielefeld)
African languages,
development and the state
Edited by
Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss
London and New York
First published 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© 1994 Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss, the collection as a
whole; individual chapters with the contributors
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or
retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
African languages, development and the state/edited
by Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. African languages—Political aspects. 2. Language and
languages—Political aspects. 3. Language policy—Africa.
4. Language planning—Africa I. Fardon, Richard. II. Furniss,
Graham
P119.32.A3A38 1993
306.4'49'096–dc20
93–17208 CIP
ISBN 0-203-42257-0 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-73081-X (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-09476-3 (Print Edition)
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