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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
A Few years ago an editor was beaten in Uganda for using the “wrong” forms of the Luganda tongue, which somewhat earlier had been “standardized.” This incident reflects the emotionalism surrounding language issues in the emergent African countries, so desperately seeking a common medium for internal and external communication.
1 Text of undated speech (early 1957?) reproduced in Nkrumah, Kwame, I Speak of Freedom (New York, 1961), pp. 102–103Google Scholar.
2 Legum, Colin, editor, Africa: A Handbook to the Continent (London, 1961), p. 219Google Scholar, Dennis Austin's “Ghana.”
