Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Language and colonialism in Africa - Introduction -- Section 1: Language contact and language conflict in Africa -- The politics of language planning in Africa: Critical choices for the 21st century -- Nation building and language in the new South Africa -- Empowerment of the masses through the use of African languages -- The growth of Kiswahili as language of education and administration in Tanzania -- Section 2: Language expansion and language engineering: Case studies from Africa -- The technicalization of the autochthonous languages of South Africa: Constraints from a present day perspective -- Marketing new lexical terminology in Nigeria: Some practical considerations -- The Somali language lexical project: Aims and methods -- Technicalization of the lexicon through endogenous language resources: A case from Mali -- Section 3: Language, culture and nation building: An illustration with Namibia -- Official monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Namibia -- "Our official language shall be English": The Namibian Prime Minister's perspective -- Language policy and language planning in Namibia -- Language and nation in Namibia: The fallacies of Modernization Theory -- Section 4: The status and use of languages: Linguistic conflict in Namibia -- The role of English in Namibia: A sociocultural and linguistic account -- Attitudes and language: An empirical investigation into the status and use of English in Namibia -- Lexical engineering in African languages: Exemplified through Herero -- The status and use of the German language in independent Namibia: Can German survive the transition? -- Afrikaans - The unwanted lingua franca of Namibia -- List of contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index