@article{1463752,
      recid = {1463752},
      author = {Mazrui, Alamin, and Njogu, Kimani,},
      title = {Swahili in spaces of war : a sociolinguistic odyssey /},
      pages = {1 online resource (236 pages) :},
      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.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1463752},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27338-4},
}