Transcending the Monolingual National Vision: Multilingualism as a Marker of Belonging in Kenya and Tanzania

• In Event: National Identity and Attitudes towards Foreigners

Brief Overview

I examine the place of multilingualism within Kenyans’ and Tanzanians’ contemporary understandings of their nations and how these understandings challenge Western conceptions of the monolingual nation-state.

Author

• Andrew Marshall, Georgetown University