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<P>A Feb 11 article in the New York Times, entitled "Kenya’s Middle Class
Feeling Sting of Violence " seems to come to a different conclusion. </P>
<P>"Mr. Mbugua spoke the other day at one of those meetings about the importance
of reconciliation in the workplace. His idea was to keep local languages, which
many Kenyans speak in addition to the country’s official languages (English and
Kiswahili), away from the water cooler. 'We don’t want people to feel excluded
when they’re at work,' he said.</P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dzo@bisharat.net href="mailto:dzo@bisharat.net">Don Osborn</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=AfricanLanguages@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:AfricanLanguages@yahoogroups.com">AfricanLanguages@yahoogroups.com</A>
; <A title=lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 22, 2008 1:42
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> "Globalization & the Role of
African Languages for Devt."</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I just came across a link to Ghirmai Negash's 2005 paper,
"Globalization and the Role of African Languages for Development," on the
Sociolingo's African Linguistics blog at <A
href="http://sociolingolinguistics.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/globalization-and-the-role-of-african-languages-for-development/">http://sociolingolinguistics.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/globalization-and-the-role-of-african-languages-for-development/</A>
and thought I'd pass on the reference. Apparently it was just made available
online at <A
href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/ies/050219/">http://repositories.cdlib.org/ies/050219/</A>
. The abstract follows; the full paper in PDF format can be downloaded at <A
href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=ies">http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=ies</A>
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<P class=MsoNormal>"Indigenous African languages are largely eliminated, and
marginalized from use. Instead of investing in and using their linguistic,
cultural, and human potential, African governments and the elite still
continue to channel away their resources and energies into learning ‘imperial’
languages that are used by a tiny minority of the populations. Against the
backdrop of constraining global forces, and Africa’s internal problems (wars,
repression, and general economic misery), this paper argues that African
languages could be the most critical element for Africa’s survival, and
cultural, educational and economic development. In order for this to happen,
however, Africa must invest in this sector of ‘cultural economy’ as much as it
does (should do) in the ‘material economy’, since both spheres are
interrelated and impact on each
other."<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>