| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the introduction of applied linguistics in Africa. The current context of African applied linguistics has to be understood in relation to a long and varied history. Pre-colonial migration, trade down the centuries, the radical displacements of slavery, the growth of print literacy and the decline of oral culture, arbitrary territorial changes under colonialism, industrial exploitation of natural resources, and the unprecedented rapidity of migration and urbanization in the postcolonial period have brought language groups into contact and conflict, changing social and economic life and with it the shape, function and status of the languages within specific communities. |
