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LANGUAGE, NATION, AND COMMUNICATION Making a Virtue of Necessity: an overview of the English language in Nigeria by Ayo Banjo. Ibadan University Press, 1996, distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford. Pp. xi+167. $16.00/£8.95 paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

CONRAD MAX BENEDICT BRANN
CONRAD MAX BENEDICT BRANN
Affiliation:
Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Abstract

This is the eloquent story of an arranged marriage, in the experience and judgement of an eminent Nigerian scholar of English, recording his life-long participation in the struggle over the status, standard, and stability of the language in his own nation.

Type
Review Article
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 779 - 782
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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