Author: Lazarus Musazitame Miti
ISBN No: 978-1-920294-10-6
Cost: 160.00
This book advocates the development and use of the indigenous African languages of Southern Africa, including Sign Language and attempts to show how these languages can contribute to the socio-economic development of individual countries. With reference to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the book demonstrates why and how language rights should be treated as a serious human rights issue. This is illustrated with discussions of the place of African languages in the rights to education, health, economic justice, fair trial, access to information, freedom of opinion and expression and the right to non-discrimination. In order to contextualise language rights within Southern Africa, the linguistic landscape of selected 11 countries, the status of the indigenous languages of the region and language policies of colonial governments are discussed. The 11 countries include Angola, Botswana, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The penultimate chapter is devoted to Sign Language as it is the most marginalised and least understood of the languages of the African continent.
ISBN No: 978-1-920294-10-6
Cost: 160.00
This book advocates the development and use of the indigenous African languages of Southern Africa, including Sign Language and attempts to show how these languages can contribute to the socio-economic development of individual countries. With reference to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the book demonstrates why and how language rights should be treated as a serious human rights issue. This is illustrated with discussions of the place of African languages in the rights to education, health, economic justice, fair trial, access to information, freedom of opinion and expression and the right to non-discrimination. In order to contextualise language rights within Southern Africa, the linguistic landscape of selected 11 countries, the status of the indigenous languages of the region and language policies of colonial governments are discussed. The 11 countries include Angola, Botswana, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The penultimate chapter is devoted to Sign Language as it is the most marginalised and least understood of the languages of the African continent.
