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Sociolinguistic Variables in the Degenaracy of English in Post Colonial Contexts Eric A. Anchimbe and Stella A. Anchimbe Ludwig-Maximilians (University of Munich) and The University of Yaounde by I
This paper tackles from a broad historical perspective the attitudes, media and strategies of transmission, and the interplay of English and identity in the world today. It traces the negative tendencies towards non-native Englishes resultant from British colonialism to the hangovers and strategic linguistic schemes adopted during colonialism. Here the appellations non-native, postcolonial, indigenised, New Englishes are used interchangeably without purporting to make a profound evaluation of the bias linked to them, especially the non-native. The paper concludes with the note that the claim of degeneracy of the New Englishes was ignited by colonial linguistic projects and later fuelled by social prejudices built basically on colonial skeletons. It has less linguistic evidence and if any exists its roots are strongly founded in colonialism.
Category:ResearchReads:10Uploaded:05 / 08 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionTo be or Not to be, Traditionalist or Modernist, Nationalist or Internationalist, That is the Question - Almeida, Anthony B.
Almeida, Anthony B. 2005. "To be or Not to be, Traditionalist or Modernist, Nationalist or Internationalist, That is the Question." ArchiAfrika Conference Proceedings: Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 27-29), 127-128.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:65Uploaded:01 / 03 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionAfrica in 2050
report called Africa in 50 Years’ Time – The Road towards Inclusive Growth, prepared by the AfDB. The main forecasts are a decline in conflict, more urbanization, more migration and less reliance on agriculture. The future, as always, is shrouded in uncertainty. But many of the trends that will determine Africa’s future prospects are already visible today. So we can begin to identify the challenges and opportunities that lie before us. Thus, the main objective of the studies is to reduce uncertainties, to anticipate the changes and to explore the possibilities and prospects for Africa by determining the possible paths, defining all the constraints and identifying the likely scenarios. The report builds on the wider studies being undertaken by the two institutions. It identifies the drivers of change and their likely consequences over the next half century, and proposes policy choices to help Africa to fulfill its future potential. Major conclusions coming out of the analysis indicate that by 2060, gradual exogenous changes will have transformed the opportunities and challenges facing Africa in at least six dimensions. Urbanization will accelerate. Migration will increase. Agriculture may well decline, both in relative and absolute importance. Natural resources will remain an important part of the development picture and a major development challenge. Some African economies may have learned to compete globally, and conflicts will continue to diminish but not wholly disappear. The report argues that how individual economies in Africa respond to these challenges will depend on the choices they make, individually and collectively. Broadly, countries in the region need to respond by investing in their cities, managing migration, transforming agriculture, managing their natural resources better, and making concerted efforts to break in at the bottom of the global market in goods and services. Collective action – by Africans, themselves, in the form of deeper regional integration, and by the international community in the form of improved performance on trade and aid – must support the efforts of individual counties.
Category:ResearchReads:1,184Uploaded:12 / 30 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionThe Grand (Hip Hop) Chessboard by Hishaam Aidi
In the last decade, as hip-hop has emerged as a political force among youth, regimes across the world have intervened to promote some sub-styles and sideline others, in an attempt to press-gang the genre to disparate political ends. In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez funds hip-hop schools around the country, and invites Bolivarian raperos onto his Sunday television show, “Aló, Presidente.” In the US, Michael Steele has tried to give the Republican Party a “hip-hop makeover” to bring its ideas to “urban- suburban hip-hop settings.” The US Army, in partnership with The Source magazine, has used hip-hop culture in its “Taking It to the Streets” campaign to recruit African-American youth. Governments are also sending hip-hop culture to far-flung corners of the globe. From its putative birthplace in the Bronx,hip-hop has traveled to become, at once, a means of protest and a tool of public diplomacy, counter-terrorism, democracy promotion and economic development. It is in the post-September 11 “war on terror” and in Western states’ dealings with Muslim-majorities states and Muslims in Europe that government mobilization of hip-hop is most noticeable. While European states are using the genre to integrate and “moderate” their Muslim populations, the US has made hip-hop part of its outreach to the Muslim world. The very music blamed for a range of social ills at home — violence, misogyny, consumerism,academic under performance — is being deployed abroad in the hopes of making America safer and better liked. The officials behind the sundry hip-hop diplomacy initiatives invariably point to the success of jazz diplomacy during the Cold War as evidence of the “smart power” potential of music.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:562Uploaded:10 / 05 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionYouTubing Africa: Old Patterns and New Possibilities by Melissa Wall (California State University - Northridge)
Rhodes Journalism Review Vol 28, 2008. Source: http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no28/YouTubing_Africa.pdf
Category:Internet & TechnologyReads:257Uploaded:09 / 07 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionAfrica on YouTube: Musicians, Tourists, Missionaries and Aid Workers
Africa on YouTube: Musicians, Tourists, Missionaries and Aid Workers Melissa Wall Department of Journalism, California State University - Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330-8311, USA Source: https://sites.google.com/site/mcom600/documents
Category:(not categorized)Reads:377Uploaded:09 / 07 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionArcelorMittal a First for Liberia
A first for Liberia Commemorating the start of mining operations Yekepa Saniquellie NIMBA Liberia mines again In 2011, ArcelorMittal’s first shipment of iron ore left the shores of Liberia. The ore, mined from Tokadeh near Yekepa in the Nimba mountain range, was transported along a 240 km rebuilt railway line, to the rehabilitated port of Buchanan. This significant landmark is the culmination of five years’ work to restart the country’s iron ore production. But commemorating the first shipment
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:888Uploaded:09 / 05 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionIn search of Sembène by Barrie McClune
This visual essay begins at the National Homage to Ousmane Sembène in Dakar, Senegal in July 2008 and follows my search to find out whether Sembène’s work is accessible to the Dakar public. From conference rooms, to museums, to market stalls and living rooms, I explore what has happened to Sembène’s work in the city he made his home, and thereby raise questions about the future of African film-makers and African audiences.
Category:Arts & ArchitectureReads:228Uploaded:08 / 11 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionIn Need of Connection: Reflections on Youth and the Translation of Film in Tanzania by Birgit Englert
Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien Nr. 18/2010, 10. Jg., 137-159. This essay focuses on these transformation processes and aims to show how films are shaped by the work of the translators (“watafsiri”) but also by the people who work in the video parlours (“vibanda vya video”), the places where these films are usually consumed. It is based on research that was carried out in Masasi (Mtwara region) and Nachingwea (Lindi region) in February 2009 and in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro (Morogoro region) and Bagamoyo (Tanga region) in September 2009. Fieldwork consisted of interviews and informal conversations with film translators, video shop and video parlour owners as well as film consumers. Participatory observation, which included watching translated films in various film parlours, especially in Morogoro, was another major part of the research.
Category:Arts & ArchitectureReads:270Uploaded:08 / 05 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionTurning Rice Into Pilau the Art of Video Narration in Tanzania by Matthias Krings
2010 Working Paper Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien Department of Anthropology and African Studies
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