Swahili state and society : the political economy of an African language

Authors:Ali Al'Amin Mazrui (Author), Alamin M. Mazrui (Author)

Summary:This text examines the social and political impact of the Swahili language.

Print Book, English, 1995

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Publisher: East African Educational Publishers ; James Currey, Nairobi, London, 1995

Physical Description:171, v str. ; 21 cm

ISBN:

9780852557297, 9780852557297, 0852557299, 0852557299

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:441402890

Subjects:

Africa, East

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics Africa, East

Swahili language

Swahili language Africa, East

afriški jezik svahili swahili Afrika vzhodna Afrika sociolingvistika

Contents:

Part One Kiswahili and the politics of change: detribalization; class formation; political participation; secularization; science and technology. Part Two The history: from precolonial times to the Maji Maji rebellion (1905); from World War I to World War II; medium of education; economic and political integration; cultural nationalism; East African integration; Kiswahili international. Part Three Kiswahili, dependency and decolonization: detribalization and class-formation; expanding popular partcipation; secularization; western science and African dependency; towards decolonization.