The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
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 pol
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SOCIAL & Political History of
SOUTHERN
Africa’s
LANGUAGES
Tomasz Kamusella & Finex Ndhlovu
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa’s Languages
Tomasz Kamusella • Finex Ndhlovu Editors
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa’s Languages
Editors Tomasz Kamusella School of History University of St Andrews St Andrews, UK
Finex Ndhlovu University of New England Armidale, NSW, Australia
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In fond remembrance of Tony Judt (1948–2010) and Neville Alexander (1936–2012)
Foreword: On Epistemicides, Linguicides, Inventions and Standardisations
At the centre of the ongoing Rhodes Must Fall/Fees Must Fall Movements whose epicentre is South Africa is a call for linguistic and cultural freedom. Specifically, there is a consistent call for what Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2016) terms ‘a return to the base’, that is, to the indigenous languages.1 The students, most of who were born after the dismantling of juridical apartheid, have put pressure on universities to use indigenous languages in all aspects of the academy. To a historian like me, this demand is legitimate. The legitimacy of the demand must be understood within the context of an appreciation of th
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