Editorial
The Relevance of Language Policy in Africa
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https://doi.org/10.36950/lpia-01-01-2025-1Keywords:
African languages, Language PolicyAbstract
For this inaugural issue of the Journal, we want to offer a brief overview of the origins of our initiative and a short discussion of its relevance as we see it. This issue holds a number of interesting articles in store for you; we end the editorial with a few pointers as to what we would like to publish in future.
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