Among the preconditions for establishing colonial authority was communication with the colonised. Verbal exchanges depended on a shared communicative praxis providing common ground on which unilateral claims could be imposed. Use of, and control over, verbal means of communication were needed to maintain regimes - military, religious-ideological, economic - in power. In the Belgian Congo brutal physical force never ceased to be exercised. In this study Professor Fabian examines the more subtle uses of power through controls on communication, by looking at the history of Swahili as it spread from the East Coast to Central Africa and demonstrating connections between -changing forms of colonial power and the development of policies towards Swahili. Using a wide range of sources, including numerous and sometimes obscure vocabularies, he combines concepts derived from literary theory and sociolinguistics to uncover, through the flaws and failures of these texts, deep-seated attitudes to language and communication.
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Swahili and Nyamwezi traders and conquistadors, through movements that were at least partly triggered by outside forces such as American sea-trade out of Salem, Massachusetts, extended the interaction sphere in which Swahili came to serve as a means of communication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Katanga Swahili, Ministry of Colonies, White Fathers, Independent State, East Coast, Governor General, Van de Weyer, Colonial Charter, Robert Williams, Belgian Congo, Congo Swahili, Lake Tanganyika, Bishop Springer, Eastern Province, Free State, South Africa, Minister of Colonies, Haut Katanga, L'Essor du Congo, Bourse du Travail, Shaba Swahili, Special du Katanga, Union Coloniale Belge, Association Internationale Africaine, Librairie Coloniale New!
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Swahili and Nyamwezi traders and conquistadors, through movements that were at least partly triggered by outside forces such as American sea-trade out of Salem, Massachusetts, extended the interaction sphere in which Swahili came to serve as a means of communication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Katanga Swahili, Ministry of Colonies, White Fathers, Independent State, East Coast, Governor General, Van de Weyer, Colonial Charter, Robert Williams, Belgian Congo, Congo Swahili, Lake Tanganyika, Bishop Springer, Eastern Province, Free State, South Africa, Minister of Colonies, Haut Katanga, L'Essor du Congo, Bourse du Travail, Shaba Swahili, Special du Katanga, Union Coloniale Belge, Association Internationale Africaine, Librairie Coloniale New!
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- Swahili Tales by Edward Steere in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Swahili Exercises by Edward Steere in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cecil Rhodes on page 98, and Back Matter
- Collection of Vocabularies Cb: 1862 (Cass Library of African Studies. African Languages,) by Heinrich Barth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Across Africa by Verney, Lovett Cameron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Luise White on page 13, page 178, and Back Matter
- New World Babel by Edward G. Gray in Front Matter, page 27, and Back Matter
- White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865 (African Studies) by Clifton C. Crais in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana on page 34, page 58, and Back Matter
- In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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