Gragoatá (Dec 2005)

Domination and Resistance in Africa: the Linguistic issue

  • Ângela Lamas Rodrigues

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 19

Abstract

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The present work claims that the official use of European languages in African countries, English in particular, is associated with a project of neocolonial domination and reinforces processes of political and social exclusion as well as specific forms of resistance that attempt to rescue, promote, and protect African indigenous languages.

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