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Peer reviewedBakar, Abdourahim Said – Comparative Education, 1988
Discusses the sociocultural context of education in the Comoro Islands, where effects of French colonization combine with Islamic influences. Examines education and cultural changes under French colonialism prior to independence in 1975. Since then, political changes resulted in establishment of French and South African hegemony. One table, 5…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSwigart, Leigh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
In describing the different types of codeswitching used in Dakar, this paper questions the frequent assumption that the use of two languages within a single conversation violates a norm. In Dakar there is a fluid and unmarked switching between Wolof and French, "Urban Wolof," that has become the most common mode of speech among urban…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism
