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Applied Linguistics 1997 18(1):69-85; doi:10.1093/applin/18.1.69
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The Colonial Legacy and Language Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Zaire1

NKONKO M KAMWANGAMALU

University of Natal

This paper is concerned with Zaire's perennial issue of choosing an indigenous language for official use It attempts to determine why Zaire, one of the highly multilingual countries in the African continent, has not succeeded yet in choosing an indigenous language for official use The factors which have impededprogress on this issue are discussed Recommendations are made which call for the revalorization of these languages through status re-planing, and for co-habi-tation policy whereby both French and indigenous languages function not one at the expense of the others but one in addition to the others It is argued that should the country pursue efforts to choose an indigenous language for official use, the language targeted for this purpose should become an additional officiaol language rather than a substitute for the incumbent official language, French It is suggested, for the first time, that such an ndditional official language should be Swahth rather than any of the other indigenous languages


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