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Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (Paperback, Revised)
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Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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The author of two previous books on African political culture,
David Laitin turns in this book to the study of language planning
in Africa and the role of language politics in the process of state
formation. Written in an engaging style, the book takes the reader
into the complex web of language use in Africa today, where the
average citizen must employ a multitude of different languages for
use in the home, at school, in the marketplace, and on the job.
African state governments must confront a number of difficult
questions concerning language, such as which language of many
should be the official national language--if any--and which
language should be used in schools. Decisions on these questions
are shown to be an important part of the process of state
formation, and by making comparison to European cases, Laitin asks
whether the complexity of language use in Africa today is
symptomatic of early state construction, and if so, whether states
must move inevitably toward a common language as they develop. He
uses the logic of game theory to argue that a common language is
not the inevitable solution, and proposes that in Africa the
optimal solution to the language problem will be what he calls a 3
+ 1 outcome, which will allow for multiple language use.
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