The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

Author: Tomasz Kamusella

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1137015934

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This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

Ukuli nsoke takufwa muntu
Ukuli nsoke takufwa muntu

Author: Chishimba M. Lumbwe

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9789982124454

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On how to treat and prevent illnesses especially in situations where there is no doctor.

Language in Zambia
Language in Zambia

Author: Sirarpi Ohannessian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 135160516X

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Originally published in 1978, this volume is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 presents an overview of the linguistic situation in Zambia: who speaks which languages, where they are spoken, what these languages are like. Special emphasis is given to the extensive survey of the languages of the Kafue basin, where extensive changes and relocations have taken place. Part 2 is on language use: patterns of competence and of extension for certain languages in urban settings, configurations of comprehension across language boundaries, how selected groups of multilinguals employ each of their languages and for what purposes, what languages are used in radio and television broadcasting and how decisions to use or not use a language are made. Part 3 involves language and formal education: what languages, Zambian and foreign, are used at various levels int he schools, which are taught, with what curricula, methods, how teachers are trained, how issues such as adult literacy are approached and with what success.

The Languages of West Africa
The Languages of West Africa

Author: Diedrich Westermann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1351600508

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This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the Atlantic coast at the Sengal River eastward to the Lake Chad region. The area covered by this volume is mainly a goegraphical one, so it follows that not all the languages included are related to one another, though a certain degree of homogeneity appears.

All Else Equal
All Else Equal

Author: Luis Benveniste

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1136702652

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Private schools always provide a better education than public schools. Or do they? Inner-city private schools, most of which are Catholic, suffer from the same problems neighboring public schools have including large class sizes, unqualified teachers, outdated curricula, lack of parental involvement and stressful family and community circumstances. Straightforward and authoritative, All Else Equal challenges us to reconsider vital policy decisions and rethink the issues facing our current educational system.

The Struggle for Control of Education in Zambia
The Struggle for Control of Education in Zambia

Author: Dan O'Brien

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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Investigates the crucial role that education played in the life of the Republic of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia). The social structure is examined from the perspective of subaltern theory and the educational structure from the theoretical perspective of Foucault's Discourse and Discipline.

Oral Literature in Africa
Oral Literature in Africa

Author: Ruth Finnegan

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1906924708

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Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.

Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65
Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65

Author: Kenneth Little

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1135034699

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The social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, these titles explore the tension between agriculture and industry in developing economies, and trace the complex political process of independence. Aimed at administrators and academics, these studies are central to Development Studies, and also present the work of renowned anthropologists such as Raymond Firth.