Handbook of Language Policy and Education in Countries of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc): A Comparative Perspective on Language Pol (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004508057)

This volume focuses on the different challenges of language policy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Each of the seventeen chapters follows the same structure, ensuring readability and accessibility, and describes the unique aspects of each country. The work as a whole reveals the complex and reciprocal relations between multiple indigenous African languages, Creole languages and former colonial languages and it constitutes an opportunity to notice recurring patterns as well as distinctive characteristics.
Therefore, everyone involved in language policy, education, economics and development, geography, development or area studies and African studies will benefit from such a holistic and innovative overview.

Author: Michael M. Kretzer
ISBN-10: 9004508058
ISBN-13: 9789004508057
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2022
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover