African Language Studies in Transition Conference Proceedings : University of Maryland Eastern Shore, September 28-30, 1995 African Language Project

Includes bibliographical references Cover title At head of title: African Language Project African languages and applications to technology development / Akinsola Akiwowo -- Proficiency test guidelines for African languages: Swahili / Joe Amoako -- Issues of writing in African languages: Ghanaian perspective / Joe Amoako -- The significance of indigenous languages in Nigeria's political history / Adeline Apena -- First language instruction in Cameroon: a lesson learned or new wine in an old calabash? / Funwi Ayuninjam -- Diglossia and transactions in Sierra Leone / Abdul Bangura -- The limitation of the pedagogical approach for training students in African languages: perspectives from andragogy / Abdul Bangura -- Preserving Wolof as a language / Sana Camara -- Strange languages and stranger experts: the Igbo dictionary project / Michael Echeruo -- African language studies at universities: aspects of the South African situation / N. C. P. Golele -- Multilingualism and language learning in the African context: the case of the Gambian child / Alieu Jobe -- The struggle to control language in French West Africa, 1900-1946 / James Jones -- African language instruction in the United States: old challenges, new ideas / Omar Ka -- Teaching African languages as a medium for cultural decolonization / Julian Kunnie -- African language teaching in the universities / Crispin Tshibangu Mashinda -- Teaching African languages: a culture based approach; a case for Setswana as a university discipline / D. S. Matjila -- African languages and the restoration of the past: the nexus of language, form, and technique / M. A. McMaster -- Revisioning the past: the convergence of oral tradition, gender and language; politics in Peninah Muhando's Nguzo Mama / Katwiwa Mule -- Teaching and learning Kiswahili as a second language: a conscious-cross-cultural awareness approach / Masila Mutisya -- Kin Kiese?: communities and communication in V.Y. Mudimbe's Le Bel Immonde / Jonathan Ngate -- Language, identity, development and diplomacy in Africa: the urgent need for a Lingua Franca / Emeka Nwadiora -- Getting the chief of my village t