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Celebrating African Endoglossia: Towards a Sustainable Roadmap for Pan-Phonetic Partnerships in Higher Education

The Journal of Pan African studies, 2017-04, Vol.10 (2), p.18-33 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Celebrating African Endoglossia: Towards a Sustainable Roadmap for Pan-Phonetic Partnerships in Higher Education
  • Author: Mbanefo, Eugenia
  • Subjects: African languages ; Analysis ; Education, Higher ; Educational aspects ; Higher education ; Indigenous languages ; Linguistics ; Native languages ; Pan-Africanism ; Phonetics ; Politics ; Singing ; Social aspects ; Sociocultural factors ; Sports ; War
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of Pan African studies, 2017-04, Vol.10 (2), p.18-33
  • Description: Abstract Convinced that pan-phonetic partnership is capable of enhancing knowledge generation while promoting intra-Africa cooperation and cooperation with other parts of the world, the article proposes linguistic pan-Africanism (a platform of synergy among phoneticians of African extraction, working in institutions of higher education both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, with a long term purpose of producing a phonetic map of African languages) as a way of correcting a perceived imbalance in the rating of the linguistic biography of the African when compared with that of his European counterpart, and reversing a seeming tendency of not sufficiently singing the potentials of a continent whose plethora of indigenous languages provide a fertile ground for robust research in Instrumental/Experimental Phonetics. While the less benign among the global competitive endeavours bother on the development of nuclear war heads, there are other healthy and impressive playing fields for global competition ranging from sports, trade, politics, to war against hunger and deprivation, education, socio-cultural emancipation, etc... Many of these are known to adopt a "pan" allembracing approach or rule of engagement, symbolic of ubuntu, a term popularized by various authors including the novelist, scholar, and journalist Jordan Kush Ngubane in the 1950s and further orchestrated by public figures such as Nelson Mandela, while articulating a society and world of inclusiveness and equality. Of a fact, it is hardly possible to engage serious debate on the native African language question without due mention of the spirited struggle of the Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o as...
  • Publisher: Los Angeles: Itibari Zulu
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0888-6601
    EISSN: 1942-6569
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
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