Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

Author: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu Price: $ 27.00 (new) $ 3.99 (used) Medium: Hardcover (240 pages) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 1997-02-13

Editorial Description

Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.