ABSTRACT
This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I West Africa
chapter 5|14 pages
Minority language development in Nigeria: a situation report on Rivers and Bendel States
Ben Ohi Elugbe
chapter 11|47 pages
Minority language, ethnicity and the state in two African situations
Wim van Binsbergen
part |2 pages
Part III East Africa