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Peer reviewedBgoya, Walter – International Review of Education, 2001
Discusses the problems of the domination of the ex-colonial languages for intellectual life in Africa. Asserts that English serves fundamentally the interests of those for whom it is both an export commodity and a language of conquest and domination, and argues that there is no compelling reason for adopting a foreign language as a national one.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Colonialism, Educational Policy, English
