Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus?

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 62-89

  Makoni, Sinfree ^a   Mashiri, Pedzisai ^a  

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