From da bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop nation language in Tanzania

Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 95-112

  Higgins, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203892787     Document Type: Chapter

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