Languages and the Postcolonial State in Africa
Indigenous Languages and the Question of Development in Postcolonial Africa: Focus on Nigeria
... African languages, sustainable development, linguistic inclusion ...to Africa as a whole is the sustainability of development processes and ...in Africa as a ...
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Challenges and opportunities of the postcolonial state university education in Africa: an appraisal of Hunhu/Ubuntu in national-moral development in Zimbabwe
... since Africa is not a homogenous continent, for its diversity encompasses language differences from our erstwhile colonisers, the French, the British and the Portuguese (Mufwene, 2013a; Mufwene, 2013b; Bahuchet, ...
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The status of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa
... where languages in South Africa are still perceived as they were during both the apartheid and the colonial eras with English and Afrikaans still dominant in the professional ...colonial languages as ...
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Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa in a broader socio-political perspective
... in Africa with a special focus on multi-ethnic and multi-lingual states including Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Democratic Republic of ...between state and minorities, the status of major and ...
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Postcolonial transitions in Africa:decolonization in West Africa and present day South Africa
... South Africa because they mark the beginning of decolonization in sub‐Saharan ...South Africa, in contrast, is among the last states in Africa and the world to undergo the difficult transition from a ...
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Early Eurocentric Criticism of Achebe and Postcolonial Realities in Africa
... European languages are generally seen as intellectual colonies of ...The languages rep- resent values and sensibilities that the colonized peoples should aspire to ...acquire. Languages as having ...
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Georges Balandier’s Africa : postcolonial translations and ambiguous reprises
... Formulation of ideas is not an independent process, strictly rational in the old sense, but part of a particular grammar, and differs, from slightly to greatly, between different grammars. We dissect nature along lines ...
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The linguistic situation in Sub-Saharan Africa in the postcolonial period and the problems of linguistic decolonization
... English language in the world is linguistic imperialism, which, in its turn, is a form of linguicism, that is discrimination on the basis of “knowing-not knowing” of the dominant language [25: 50]. The approach to a ...
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A postcolonial analysis of entrepreneurship in Africa
... corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition and performance measures (World Bank Enterprise Survey, 2014). Overall, both GEM and the World Bank Entrepreneurship Survey measure entrepreneurship based on three ...
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Understanding the relationship between human rights abuse, state dysfunction and postcolonial sovereignty in Africa
... of state are complicit in the perpetrations of human rights violations (particularly in authoritarian regimes), whilst in others, systemic dysfunction has rendered the state incapable of intervention ...
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languages: the state of the nation
... in Languages and International Communication (DLIC), the development of which provided a fertile forum for exchange between schools, colleges, universities and ...of languages and raise aspiration, ...
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South Africa as postcolonial heterotopia: The racialized experience of place and space
... South Africa, but blacks from elsewhere in Africa tell me the same thing about an awareness of their ...South Africa but finds its clearest expression within the country’s stark division between ...
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Analysis of the form of postcolonial governments in Africa : Republics or monarchies disguised as Republics ?
... Are postcolonial African States monarchies or republics disguised as monarchies ? That is the question that guides us in this ...in Africa, the postcolonial African States, although bearing the name ...
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Color TV : Postcolonial Concerns and “Colored” Television Audiences in South Africa
... South Africa, the coon also came to represent “the epitome of the alienated, stupid person consenting to be oppressed, and behaving in a ridiculous manner, because it was supposed to please ...
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From patronage to neopatrimonialism: postcolonial governance in Sub-Sahara Africa and beyond
... in postcolonial polities in the last decades, their politics and public administration often continue to be marked by authoritarianism, nepotism and corruption – the very practices good governance policy was to ...
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Gazing back: A feminist postcolonial lens on tourism in the townships of South Africa
... 120 related to economic and livelihoods transformations, transformations in understandings of the self, in one’s relationships with Others, and in dynamics of power. Tourists and hosts alike understand that tourism ...
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Allegory of derangement in postcolonial fiction: a study of selected novels from Africa
... of postcolonial nations specifically the Nigerian experience. The state of Madia represents the post-independence Nigeria as Nwakanwa notes that the current writers of Nigeria are preoccupied with decrying ...
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Regular Languages and Finite State Machines
... The door swings open when its sensors detect an approaching person, and then stays open until the person has passed through and beyond the door.. It has two sensor pads - one in front of[r] ...
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Governance Without Politics: Civil Society, Development and the Postcolonial State
... the state and a less bounded understanding of civil society, as is apparent in the remarks by Carlos Afonso (2005), the Director of the Brazilian CSO RITS, when he argues that civil society had greater impact on ...
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International relations and the shaping of state societal relations A postcolonial study
... of state, expressing different configurations of state/so ciety complexes, rem ains very largely ...the state as a singular concept limits our investigation in international politics and bringing in ...
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