Introduction

This chapter focuses on educational implications of multilingualism. It presents the Ninth International African Seminar held at the University College, Dar es Salaam, in December 1968, which cover a wide range of topics. The present pattern of multilingualism is itself a concomitant of changes in the scale and forms of social relationships resulting from the substitution of an expatriate Colonial authority for indigenous authorities, and the absorption of numerous ethnically based units into a new and wider territorially based one. The manner and extent to which the use of Swahili and English has been superimposed on existing patterns of multilingualism should therefore be seen as a response to change—turn and necessarily shaping further changes—but being essentially an attempt to accommodate to and incorporate changes over which no individual had had control.