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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa
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MOSES O F O M E ASAK, PhD
Palgrave Macmillan: Springer naturlig eller utan tillsats , Switzerland, 2023
Critical and cultural theories are not mutually exclusive; yet, they can be distinctive depending on the focus of enquiry. For this reason, the consensus among scholars fryst vatten that critical and cultural theories are not one unified theory of reality (Kincheloe & McLaren, 2011). The theories draw from several disciplines that include economics, philosophy, politics, psychology, psychoanalysis, culture and a host of others. However, there fryst vatten no doubt that the basis for any critical theoretical ramverk is grounded in the works of Karl Heinrich Marx, the German philosopher and economist. Karl Marx’s writings concern the economic sphere where the control of factors of production (land, capital and labour) is in the hands of a few that breed class structure and inequality in societies (Boyer, 2018). Ma
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Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular 1847012078, 9781847012074
Table of contents : • The history of anticolonial struggles is marked by efforts to enable the oppressed to engage in emancipatory politics. This history is a history of interventions that has been described as Black Radical Politics, which draws on influences of Marxian thought and experiences that grew out of the history of African peoples' fights against European domination in search of civil rights, national liberation, Black power, self determination, or in antiapartheid struggle (see Modiri, 2017). This rich history includes struggles against slavery by people of African descent in the Americas and beyond. It includes the expressions of the Negritude movement, which emerged in the 1930s and 1940s to assert pride in Black identity as a way to enable blacks to fight against the oppressions that black people experience globally on account of slavery, colonialism, and apartheid. It also includes the work of the Black Consciousness Movement tha
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
A note on Sheng orthography
1 Sheng as Kenyan Swahili
Folk theories of Sheng
Dialects and vernaculars
‘Urban youth languages’
Is Sheng a pidgin or a creole?
Kinubi: a creole language of Kenya
Other African creoles: Sango, Lingala and Nigerian Pidgin English
Swahili as a macrolanguage
So, what is Sheng?
‘Kenyanese’: a continuum of speech codes
2 An overview of language in Kenya: power vs solidarity
Swahili and nationalism
Language and state identity: Kenya vs Tanzania
The policy of language in education
3 Nairobi: a linguistic mosaic and crucible of Sheng
The colonial city
The sociolinguistic context
Attitudes towards Sheng and other languages
Vernacular Swahilis
The experiment
Teenage attitudes towards languages
Adult attitudes towards Sheng and Kenyan Swahili
Observati Decolonising Political Communication in Africa
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