Language Policy and the Nation in East Africa

Most can agree that building a postcolonial country involves complex interactions between cultural, religious, ethnic, gender, and class based cleavages. But how can the language or languages used in building nations affect a country’s development?

In this episode, Sophia Herbert, PPE student at New College, speaks to Andrew Marshall, Junior Research Fellow in politics at New College to discuss and compare the implications of national language status on government policy and conceptions of the nation in the ethnolinguistically diverse societies of Tanzania and Kenya.