Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond 9781614518525, 9781614518624

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Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond
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Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth

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In a period where social unrest manifests itself by coinciding with young people's dissatisfaction with formal poli

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Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; t

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Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; t

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Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geo

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This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram’s

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Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients

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The book addresses one of the most urgent social problems in many countries, the uncertain schoolto- work transitions of

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Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa shows how the youth identify variously as fans of jazz or hip-hop who espous

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Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule

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