Titlebook: Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa; Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Aut

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Book 2016ith the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages and economic development, .Language Policy and Economics. argues that African languages are an integral part of a nation’s socio-political and economic de

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Book 2016 particular must have economic advantages if the intent is to succeed, and proposes Prestige Planning as the way to address this issue. The proposition is a welcome break away from language policies which pay lip-service to the empowerment of African languages while, by default, strengthening the stranglehold of imported European languages..

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Why Inherited Colonial Language Ideologies Persist in Postcolonial Africa,ast three interconnected factors, including linguistic instrumentalism: the market value of former colonial languages compared to African languages, Africa’s economic dependency on Western countries, among them former colonial powers, and what Scotton (Language Policy and Political Development. Ablex, 1990) has termed elite closure.

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Language Planning and Ideology in Colonial Africa,, Portuguese, and Spanish, responded to the language question in the African territories they conquered. In conclusion, this chapter considers the legacy of colonial language ideologies in Africa and the next chapter discusses how that legacy continues to impact language policy decision-making in postcolonial Africa.

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Conclusions, Challenges, and Prospects for African Languages,d theoretical framework—Prestige Planning—for African languages. It reiterates the argument, made throughout this book, that vernacular language education will not succeed in Africa unless it is associated with positive economic outcomes, much as it is in various polities around the world, as demonstrated in Chap. ..

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2947-5880 Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages and economic development, .Language Policy and Economics. argues that African languages are an integral part of a nation’s socio-political and e

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, for Vernacular Language Education around the World: Successes and Failures,ers case studies of Prestige Planning failure, or “resistance of vernacular education,” and then discusses the consequences of language policy failure in Africa for African languages and for their speakers.

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