Introduction: Portuguese Language in Africa

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Salikoko S. Mufwene

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Multilingualism has been a departure from education and economic development in black Africa since the 1960s, when many countries liberated themselves politically from their European settlers. The wave of language policies in most emerging nation-states aimed at a European ideology of a single country whose ultimate purpose would be the devaluation or possible eradication of the vast majority of, if not all, indigenous languages. On the other hand, it was not easy to promote a single indigenous language as the national and official language of a large number of languages spoken by the majority of the population.

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