03798oam 22005055 450 991072007110332120231030212240.09783031273384(electronic bk.)978303127337710.1007/978-3-031-27338-4(MiAaPQ)EBC7242917(Au-PeEL)EBL7242917(DE-He213)978-3-031-27338-4(OCoLC)1378933755(CKB)26540724900041(EXLCZ)992654072490004120230428d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSwahili in spaces of war a sociolinguistic odyssey /Alamin Mazrui, Kimani Njogu1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (238 pages)Palgrave Studies in Languages at War,2947-5910Print version: Mazrui, Alamin Swahili in Spaces of War Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031273377 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Swahili and the Maji Maji Resistance against German Rule -- Chapter 3: Swahili and African Military Formation: Between WWI and WWII -- Chapter 4: Swahili and Imperial Britain: Colonial Creation/African Appropriation -- Chapter 5: Swahili and the Conflicts of the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 6: Swahili and the Cold War -- Chapter 7: Swahili and the War on Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Period -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language. Covering a period of over a century, the monograph explores this sociolinguistic theme in the context of six wars/conflicts: the Maji Maji resistance against German rule, the two World Wars, the anti-colonial resistance to British colonialism, the wars of the Great Lakes region, the cold wars, and the ongoing war against terrorism. In geographical focus, some of the war situations explored here are “local,” others are “transnational,” and others still rather “global” in scope and ramifications. In the final analysis, the monograph provides important snapshots of the conflict-based history of the Swahili language, demonstrating once again that language is a malleable tool that can be appropriated and galvanized to serve the interests of either party in a conflict and sometimes as a means of creating hegemonic and anti-hegemonic meanings. Alamin Mazrui is Professor at Rutgers University, USA. He has authored and edited several books and written numerous articles in sociolinguistics, education, literature, and culture. He has a special interest in human rights and civil liberties and has written policy reports on these subjects. Mazrui is also a published Swahili poet and playwright. Kimani Njogu holds a Ph.D in linguistics from Yale University (1994). He is the Executive Director of Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, and serves in the Kiswahili Commission at the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), an organ of the African Union. His research interests revolve around language, culture and society.Palgrave Studies in Languages at War,2947-5910Swahili languageSocial aspectsSociolinguisticsSwahili languageSocial aspects.Sociolinguistics.496.392496.392Mazrui Alamin1948-660625Njogu Kimani1096185MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910720071103321Swahili in spaces of war3574829UNINA