Many Voices, Many Plans

Frank Barton

Chapter 12 in The Press of Africa, 1979, pp 263-273 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Africa is the most multi-lingual area of the world if population is measured against languages. Nobody knows how many languages there are. A fairly small area of Cameroon, for example, contains more than one hundred languages, almost all of them unwritten. There are plenty of other similar examples. It is remarkable that history did not impose language patterns on Africa more specifically than it did.

Keywords: Foreign Agency; African State; News Agency; Language Issue; Broadcasting Station (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04075-9_12

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