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The Official Unofficials: Why African Languages Remain Marginalized in South Africa

South Africa recognizes eleven official languages, many of them African languages. Yet, these "official" languages remain largely sidelined in education, business, and government. "The Official Unofficial…

Mittal

Unspoken Voices: The Plight of African Languages in Multilingual South Africa

South Africa is a rainbow nation with eleven official languages, but many African languages remain unheard. "Unspoken Voices" sheds light on the plight of these languages, facing marginalization despite t…

Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, com…

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Electric Jalaba

El Hal / The Feeling

Product Information Electric Jalaba comprises six accomplished musicians with an empathy thatfeels telepathic and a groove that immerses. In Arabic, the mother tongue ofMoroccan-born singer and guimbri …

Electric Jalaba

El Hal/The Feeling

Product Information Electric Jalaba comprises six accomplished musicians with an empathy thatfeels telepathic and a groove that immerses. In Arabic, the mother tongue ofMoroccan-born singer and guimbri …

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Nurturing Language

This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are…

Kealeboga Aiseng

The Sociolinguistics of South African Television

This book explores the interwoven relationship between language, media, and society in post-Apartheid South Africa. The author examines selected case studies from the sociolinguistic landscape of South Af…

The Palgrave Handbook of Language Policies in Africa

This handbook explores language policies and their impacts in Africa, examining the different language policies in each country from pre-colonial to post-colonial times. Most African countries are multili…

The Languages and Linguistics of Africa

This handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. Covering the major domains of linguistics,…

Handbook of Speech-Language Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book synthesizes research on language development and communication disability in Sub-Saharan Africa and highlights best practices for providing speech and language therapy services to individuals wi…

The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

This handbook provides a detailed and sustained examination of the scope, purpose and practical application of crisis and disaster management communication in this critical region of the African continent…

The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in…

Ben Haring

Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets

"Introduces the workings and uses of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the various degrees of cultural knowledge of their makers and - most importantly - the influence hieroglyphs had on other scripts and notations i…

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

A Tuba To Cuba

Product Information The legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band present the soundtrack to A Tuba to Cuba, the critically acclaimed documentary directed by T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch. The film follow…

Leketi Makalela

Not Eleven Languages

Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages …

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

A Tuba To Cuba

Product Information The legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band present the soundtrack to A Tuba to Cuba, the critically acclaimed documentary directed by T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch. The film follow…

Transafrica

"Transafrica is an unprecedented attempt at identifying the new vocabularies which queer and transgender Africans have used in the first two decades of the twenty-first century to refer to themselves. Tra…