Equatorial Guinea seeks sustainable language use through community-based language development
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Diosdado Nguere Manga Edeguedegue and Scott A. Smith
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2022
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pages 125-138
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In 2018 and 2019, the Equatorial Guinean government Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CICTE) worked with five non-governmental cultural and development agencies, to co-host two sociolinguistic workshops focused on community-based language and identity development. Participants included 33 key leaders from six Bantu languages of Equatorial Guinea (EG): Balengue, Basek, Benga, Bisio, Fang, Kombe. This chapter reports the results of those sessions, and explains the linguistic policy of CICTE in promoting African languages.
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Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The sociolinguistic context: language communities of Equatorial Guinea -- 3. Language policy in Equatorial Guinea -- 4. Government initiatives in local language development -- 5. Public-sector and Private-sector partnerships in Equatorial Guinean Language Development -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. References
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Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Bert van Pinxteren, Josef Schmied, eds., Language of Education and Development in Africa: Prospects for Decolonisation and Empowerment. REAL Studies 20; 1st edition. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag. 9783736976214
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REAL (Research in English and Applied Linguistics) Studies 20
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99098