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Africa Seeks a Common Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Jacob Ornstein
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Extract

A Few years ago an editor was beaten in Uganda for using the “wrong” forms of the Luganda tongue, which somewhat earlier had been “standardized.” This incident reflects the emotionalism surrounding language issues in the emergent African countries, so desperately seeking a common medium for internal and external communication.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1964 , pp. 205 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1964

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References

1 Text of undated speech (early 1957?) reproduced in Nkrumah, Kwame, I Speak of Freedom (New York, 1961), pp. 102–103Google Scholar.

2 Legum, Colin, editor, Africa: A Handbook to the Continent (London, 1961), p. 219Google Scholar, Dennis Austin's “Ghana.”