Swahili in spaces of war : a sociolinguistic odyssey / Alamin Mazrui, Kimani Njogu.
Mazrui, Alamin, 1948- author.; Njogu, Kimani, author.
2023
PL8701 .M39 2023
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Title Swahili in spaces of war : a sociolinguistic odyssey / Alamin Mazrui, Kimani Njogu.
Author Mazrui, Alamin, 1948- author.
ISBN 9783031273384 electronic book
3031273389 electronic book
3031273370
9783031273377
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27338-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-27338-4 doi
Call Number PL8701 .M39 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 496/.392
Summary This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language. Covering a period of over a century, the monograph explores this sociolinguistic theme in the context of six wars/conflicts: the Maji Maji resistance against German rule, the two World Wars, the anti-colonial resistance to British colonialism, the wars of the Great Lakes region, the cold wars, and the ongoing war against terrorism. In geographical focus, some of the war situations explored here are local, others are transnational, and others still rather global in scope and ramifications. In the final analysis, the monograph provides important snapshots of the conflict-based history of the Swahili language, demonstrating once again that language is a malleable tool that can be appropriated and galvanized to serve the interests of either party in a conflict and sometimes as a means of creating hegemonic and anti-hegemonic meanings.
Note Alamin Mazrui is Professor at Rutgers University, USA. He has authored and edited several books and written numerous articles in sociolinguistics, education, literature, and culture. He has a special interest in human rights and civil liberties and has written policy reports on these subjects. Mazrui is also a published Swahili poet and playwright. Kimani Njogu holds a Ph.D in linguistics from Yale University (1994). He is the Executive Director of Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, and serves in the Kiswahili Commission at the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), an organ of the African Union. His research interests revolve around language, culture and society.
Includes index.
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Added Author Njogu, Kimani, author.
Series Palgrave studies in languages at war.
Available in Other Form SWAHILI IN SPACES OF WAR.
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Introduction
Swahili and the Maji Maji Resistance against German Rule
Swahili and African Military Formation: Between WWI and WWII
Swahili and Imperial Britain: Colonial Creation/African Appropriation
Swahili and the Conflicts of the Great Lakes Region
Swahili and the Cold War
Swahili and the War on Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Period
Conclusion.

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