Linguistic Human Rights in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Indigenous Languages in Kenya

New Language Bearings in Africa: A Fresh Quest

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 59-68

  Musau, Paul M ^a  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

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