Author: Hannah KilhamPublisher:
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Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Claims of West Africa to Christian Instruction, Through the Native Languages
Author: Hannah KilhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa
Author: Ericka A. AlbaughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139916777
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.
The Origin and History of Missions
Author: John Overton ChoulesPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
The Origin and History of Missions ...
Author: Thomas SmithPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Writings on Education in West Africa
Author: Hannah KilhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108019145
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Kilham's writings reveal her fascination with African languages and her thorough educational programme, especially for freed slaves and their children.
Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context
Author: Magnus HuberPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027248826
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the uneducated variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
Missions in Western Africa, Among the Soosoos, Bulloms, &c
Author: Samuel Abraham WalkerPublisher:
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Mission in Western Africa, among the Soosoos, Bulloms, etc. With an Introduction
Author: Samuel Abraham WALKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850
Author: A. TwellsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230234720
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.