Urbanization, Youth Languages and Technological Innovations in Africa
Author | : Kiarie Wa'Njogu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
ISBN-10 | : 9966128093 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789966128096 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
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Author | : Kiarie Wa'Njogu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
ISBN-10 | : 9966128093 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789966128096 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Author | : Ellen Hurst-Harosh |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 3319645617 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783319645612 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has become a site of language creativity. Analysing the language of ‘new media’, including social media, print media and new media technologies, and of creative arts such as performance poetry, hip-hop and rap, they use empirical research from such diverse countries as Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, the Ivory Coast and South Africa. This original edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of African sociolinguistics, particularly in the light of the rapidly changing globalized context in which we live.
Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781107171206 |
ISBN-13 | : 1107171202 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
Author | : Josef Schmied |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2019-09-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 3736970811 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783736970816 |
Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
The European Conference on African Studies, held in 2017 in Basel, Switzerland, provided a platform for scholars working on African youth languages from bases in Africa, Europe and North America to jointly examine issues relating to the rural -urban divide in African youth languages. This is documented in the current volume. Contributors ponder the virtual absence of indigenous, non-colonial languages of Africa in studied African youth language corpora. They demonstrate that, notwithstanding the surface linguistic appearance of the African youth languages and practices that have engaged the attention of scholars, the languages ultimately bear the mark and intensity of the rural and indigenous as a major and sometimes dominant component. This points to the need for paradigms or models that incorporate rural-indigenous factors in African youth language scholarship.
Author | : Nico Nassenstein |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-09-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501501074 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501501070 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.
Author | : Atindogbe, Gratien G. |
Publisher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2019-11-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789956551378 |
ISBN-13 | : 9956551376 |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In search of well-being, these young people, plagued by poverty, social injustice, unemployment and idleness, invent linguistic codes that allow them to find themselves. The linguistic and sociolinguistic description of these youth languages is the object of this volume. The contributions inform on the statutes and functions of the youth languages of Africa, their forms and structures, their representations, and envisage perspectives and prospective didactics. Avec l’explosion démographique des jeunes dans les grandes villes africaines, on assiste, à une émergence de langues et de parlers jeunes. En quête de bien-être, ces jeunes, en proie à la pauvreté, aux injustices sociales, au chômage et à l’oisiveté, inventent des codes linguistiques leur permettant de se retrouver. C’est la description linguistique et sociolinguistique de ces parlers, qui fait l’objet de ce collectif. Les contributions informent à cet effet sur les statuts et fonctions des parlers et langues jeunes d’Afrique, leurs formes et structures, les représentations entretenues à leur égard, et envisage des perspectives et prospectives didactiques.
Author | : Don Osborn |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780796922496 |
ISBN-13 | : 0796922497 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
With increasing numbers of computers and diffusion of the internet around the world, localisation of the technology, and the content it carries, into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localisation, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as the creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to their lives, needs, and aspirations, and ultimately in bridging the 'digital divide'.
Author | : Mirjam de Bruijn |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783905758993 |
ISBN-13 | : 3905758997 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Urbanization in Africa also means rapid technological change. At the turn of the 21st century, mobile telephony appeared in urban Africa. Ten years later, it covered large parts of rural Africa and thanks to the smartphone became the main access to the internet. This development is part of technological transformations in digitalization that are supposed to bridge the urban and the rural and will make their borders blurred. They do so through the creation of economic opportunities, the flow of information and by influencing peoples definition of self, belonging and citizenship. These changes are met with huge optimism and the message of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) for Africa has been one of glory and revolution. Practice, however, reveals other sides. Increasingly, academic publications show that we are facing a new form of digital divide in which Africa is (again) at the margins. These technological transformations influence the relation between urban and rural Africa, and between Africa and the World, and hence the field of African Studies both in its objects as well as in its forms of knowledge production and in the formulation of the problems we should study. In this lecture, Mirjam de Bruijn reflects on two decades of research experience in West and Central Africa and discusses how, for her, the field has changed. The author was forced to decolonize her thinking even further, and to enter into co-creation in knowledge production. How can these lessons be translated into a form of critical knowledge production and how does the study of technological change inform the redefinition of African Studies for the 21st century?
Author | : Leketi Makalela |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-06-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781800412323 |
ISBN-13 | : 1800412320 |
Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Author | : Dr. Richard Munang |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781546292395 |
ISBN-13 | : 154629239X |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
While Africa has long been referred to as the dark continent, its shown itself to be a bearer of light to the world. Leaders such as the late former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Nobel laureates Wangari Maathai and Desmond Tutu, and others have inspired the world with their words and actions. But more work needs to be done. Richard Munang outlines practical policies that countries in Africa should take to accelerate socioeconomic transformation and achieve ideals of sustainable development goals. He highlights how the pace of economic development in Africa has lagged other nations with fewer natural resourcesand what we can do about it. Unlike other books, this one presents a novel-strategic approach to building an economy that can thrive amid climate change. The paradigm he proposes incentivizes actions that stem climate changes most harmful effects. Find out how climate change can be a master key that unlocks the door to accelerated socioeconomic transformation in Africa and how it applies to development economists, politicians, and everyday people with the insights in Making Africa Work Through the Power of Innovative Volunteerism.