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Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra
Korle Meets the Sea A Sociolinguistic History of Accra Author:Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu 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, historic... more »al, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.« less