Languages of Urban Africa

Fiona Mc Laughlin is an Associate Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Florida, USA, where she currently heads a research project on the languages of urban Africa.

'McLaughlin's edited volume, at long last, provides us an opportunity to comprehend the multilingual complexity of Africa's growing urban communities.' - David Dwyer, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, USA

• Acknowledgements \ Notes on Contributors \ 1. Introduction to the languages of urban Africa Fiona Mc Laughlin (University of Florida, USA)  \ 2. The historical dynamic of multilingualism in Accra M.E. Kropp Dakubu (University of Ghana-Legon, Ghana) \ 3. The Story of Old-Urban Vernaculars in North Africa Atiqa Hachimi (University of Florida, USA) \ 4. The spread of Lingala as a lingua franca in the Congo basin Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) \ 5. Senegal's Early Cities and the Making of an Urban Language, Fiona Mc Laughlin (University of Florida, USA) \ 6. Discourses, community, identity: Processes of linguistic homogenization in Bamako, Mali Cécile Canut (CNRS-Paris, France) \ 7. The Multiple Facets of the Urban Language Form, Nouchi Sabine Kube-Barth \ 8. On assessing the ethnolinguistic vitality of Ga in Accra James Essegbey (University of Florida, USA) \ 9. Multilingualism and language use in Porto Novo Wale Adeniran (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) \ 10. Language choice in Dar es Salaam's billboards Charles Bwenge (University of Florida, USA) \ 11. Innovations on the Fringes of the Kiswahili Speaking World Haig Der-Houssikian (University of Florida, USA) \ 12. Polarizing and blending: compatible practices in a bilingual urban community in Cape Town Kay McCormick (University of Cape Town, South Africa) \ References Index