English in Africa After the Cold War

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ISBN: 9781853596896 | 1853596892
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Copyright: 1/30/2004

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This book offers a critical examination of aspects of the politics the role of English in Africa and its Diaspora. It looks at its changed location in the post-Cold War era and the challenges it poses to the enduring quest for intellectual liberation, pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity. The study also explores the spaces and possibilities for appropriating” the language towards a counter-hegemonic African-centred agenda under the present global order.

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Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Continental Africa
Post-Cold War English in Africa: Between Complementarity and Competition	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Globalism with an American Face	p. 13
Intra-NATO Competition	p. 16
The Decline of State-Nationalism	p. 20
Exit from Ethnicity	p. 24
The West and Dissident Islam	p. 26
The Tide of Pluralism	p. 29
The World Bank and IMF Factor	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 34
English and African Education: Between Linguistic and Intellectual Dependency	p. 40
The World Bank and the Question of Instructional Media	p. 43
Language, Education and Development	p. 49
The Problem of Intellectual Dependency	p. 54
Towards Decolonization	p. 59
Global Africa
English and the Pan-African Experience: In Search of Unity	p. 65
Pan-Africanism and English: Between Slavery and Colonialism	p. 66
English as a Divisive Force	p. 70
English and 'Black' Rights	p. 75
Pan-Africanism and English in the Era of Globalization	p. 79
Pan-Africanism Beyond the English Language	p. 80
The Expansion of Global Africa	p. 84
Pan-Africanism and the Rainbow Coalition	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 90
English and the Afrocentric Voice: In Search of Authenticity	p. 94
Introduction	p. 94
Between Afrocentricity and Pan-Africanism	p. 95
Between Relativism and Functionalism	p. 96
Between English and Kiswahili	p. 98
Between Islamophobia and Swahiliphilia	p. 104
Conclusion: Towards the Democratization of Afrocentricity	p. 107
Conclusion: Linguistic Appropriation and Beyond	p. 111
The Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures	p. 129
References	p. 131
Index	p. 140
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