PT Journal
AU Lusekelo, A
TI Christina Higgins. 2009. English as a Local Language
SO Afrikanistik online
PY 2009
VL 2009
IS 6
DE Kenia; Kenya; Sheng; Tansania; Tanzania; african english; sociolinguistics
AB Christina Higgins credibly presents the situation of English in East Africa as scrutinized from four areas, which she investigated in the field: the newspaper journalism, annual beauty pageants for young women, the hip hop music of the youth, and advertisements. For me, as a Tanzanian, it has been a pleasure to review a book that illuminatingly documents the language situation, the cultural conceptualization and the localization of English that is taking place in the multilingual society in Tanzania.
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