By Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
This ebook addresses the perennial query of ways to advertise Africa’s indigenous languages as medium of guideline in academic platforms. Breaking with the normal method of the continent’s language query by way of concentrating on the customarily missed factor of the hyperlink among African languages and fiscal improvement, Language coverage and Economics argues that African languages are a vital part of a nation’s socio-political and financial improvement. for this reason, the ebook argues that any language coverage designed to advertise those languages in such larger domain names because the academic procedure particularly should have fiscal merits if the rationale is to be successful, and proposes status making plans because the approach to handle this factor. The proposition is a welcome cut loose from language rules which pay lip-service to the empowerment of African languages whereas, through default, strengthening the stranglehold of imported ecu languages.
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