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Part IV - Interlingual and Intercultural Cross-Fertilisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Russell H. Kaschula
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Rhodes University, South Africa
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Universität Leipzig
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The Transformative Power of Language
From Postcolonial to Knowledge Societies in Africa
, pp. 275 - 370
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Print publication year: 2020

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