THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA

African Studies This book stresses the need to reorient questions that have already been posed about language, identity, culture and the people of Africa. Here, the author seeks to uncover intricacies and complexities in relation to the deployment of these concepts of cultural pluralism and relativism, language politics and the mode of application thereof in specifically African contexts and interrelations based on cultural practices, or interactions between language and culture. Raised are questions like how do we apprehend the language/culture nexus across a variety of academic or scientific disciplines? How does language influence culture and vice versa? What are the political, economic, socio-cultural and ideological implications of the use of a given language?