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West African languages : medium and message (French)

Indigenous knowledge in Africa, and the world over, is expressed in language, and usually in an "indigenous" language - in short, the mother tongue of inhabitants of the locality, or a lingua franca in regular usage by them. Are these languages simply a neutral medium? Are they just instrumental "vehicles" for the expression of local knowledge and daily life? Or do the languages themselves play some role, by their very structure and usage, in what...
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Easton,Peter A..

West African languages : medium and message (French). Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes|no 29 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/184401511171643371

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