Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra
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Author: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
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Medium:
Hardcover (240 pages)
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA 1997-02-13 |
Editorial Description
Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.