TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roy-Campbell,Zaline M.
AU  - Qorro,Martha A.S.
TI  - Language crisis in Tanzania: the myth of English versus education 
SN  - 997697339X
AV  - P57.T34 R694 1997
U1  - 372.6521 ROY 22
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Dar es Salaam
PB  - Mkuki Na Nyota
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - English language
KW  - Reading comprehension
N1  - Includes bibliography
N2  - Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world
ER  -