Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies

Chapter One: The Role of Language in the Kenya Violent Extremism Narrative and Counter-narrative

Mohamed Mwamzandi



Chapter Two: Multiple Language Acquisition in Africa and its Theoretical Implications

Eyamba Bokamba



Chapter Three: Promoting and Maintaining Kenyan Indigenous Languages

Martha Michieka



Chapter Four: The Role of HBCUs in the Transfer and Maintenance of African Languages and Cultures

Timothy Ajany



Chapter Five: The Influence of Writing on Oral Traditions? The Case of Nyangbo

James Essegbey



Chapter Six: Language Empowerment for Socio-Cultural and Economic Development in Africa Akinloye Ojo



Chapter Seven: The Role of African Languages in Regional Development: Examples from East Africa

Leonard Muaka



Chapter Eight: The No Language Left Behind Approach to the African Language Question: The Case of Cameroon and Nigeria

Yuka Constantine



Chapter Nine: Alienation: The African Immigrants' Experience in Adiche's The Thing Around Your Neck and Bulawayo's We Need New Names

Gabriel Ayoola



Chapter Ten: The Voice of Liberation in Kilio cha Haki and God's Bits of Wood

Esther Lisanza



Chapter Eleven: African Female Writers and the Concept of Liberation: Writings from Nigeria and Namibia

James Etim



Chapter Twelve: Motherhood and Feminism in Margaret Ogola's novel, The River and the Source

Anne Rotich



Chapter Thirteen: The Pursuit of Selfhood in Selected Swahili Female Bildungsromane

Rose Lugano



Chapter Fourteen: Ode to the Wanderlust

Muchiri Ng'ang'a