Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin
This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more
In this paper I show that public writing (and its effacement) during a recent period of crisis in northern Mali constituted a powerful tool by which various factions attempted to inscribe political hegemony on the linguistic warscapes of three cities: Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu. The warscapes of… read more
This chapter presents a case study of how Wolof has cohabited the linguistic
ecology of urban Senegal with a colonial language, French, over the past three
hundred years. Specifically, it explores how this contact has reshaped the repertoire,
giving rise to a way of speaking that scholars have… read more
