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| Title: | Language and colonial power: the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 |
| Author: | Fabian, Johannes |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Issue: | 48 |
| Pages: | 206 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521308704 |
| Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Belgium |
| Subjects: | colonialism sociolinguistics Swahili language |
| Abstract: | The story of an emerging praxis of colonial controls as they were imposed in specific ways on a specific means of communication - Shaba Swahili, a variety of Swahili spoken in the southeastern part o f the Belgian Congo. |
