From the Hood to Public Discourse: The Social Spread of African Youth Languages

Hollington, Andrea; Nassenstein, Nico

doi:10.1353/anl.2017.0015

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“…Despite denial of acceptance by institutions and governmental policy, repertoires have popped up from the ghettoes of the cities and spread to the rural settings of distant provinces. Saturation of domain usage (Hollington and Nassenstein 2017;Githiora 2016) is utterly thorough---from hawkers in the street to politicians on the campaign. As a result, advertising for corporations (Kanana Erastus and Hurst-Harosh 2020; Mutonya 2018; Kariuki et al 2015) happily and ironically employ AUYL in preference to standard and traditional languages.…”

Section: The Informal Sectormentioning

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Linguistic Marginalia: A Special Issue on African Urban Youth Language (AUYL) Practices

Rudd

2022

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This introduction to the Multilingual Margins special issue on "African Urban and Youth Language (AUYL) Practices" is divided into five parts. The first part presents an overview of urban and youth language practices in Africa, with particular attention paid to the symbolism of youth and urban identity, multilingual composition, and a sample of commons names for AUYL. The second part of the introduction provides an overview of the history of colonial monolingualism and metropolitan infrastructures that created a niche or third space for the multitude of speakers who lacked access to housing, services, and colonial standard languages. The third part of the introduction overviews how the exclusionary policies of colonialism created a marginalization that spawned an informal sector of business, replete with a language of solidarity for the people on the periphery. The fourth part of the introduction discusses how the speakers of AUYL practices are not vicitms or imperial debris, rather they have become agents to localize the global and globalize the local by being fluid enough to renegotiate the colonial with the traditional and engender a reconceptualization of what it means to be globalized and cosmopolitan. Finally, in the fifth part, the introduction presents the eight articles that constitute the special issue.

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Linguistic Marginalia: A Special Issue on African Urban Youth Language (AUYL) Practices

Rudd

2022

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“…He takes the lead over other prisoners, calmly working out an escape strategy, whilst not being intimidated by the prosecutor in charge of his case nor the guards. In sum, although gangs in Goma and elsewhere in Congo (see Wilson 2012;Geenen 2009;Hendriks T. 2019;Hendriks M. et al 2013;Hollington & Nassenstein 2017) still refer to themselves as yankees and cowboys, the imaginary space through which gangs fashion their subjectivity has made room for the imagery of martial arts and action movies.…”

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Imagining the anti-gang: the state, the father and Jean-Claude Van Damme

Hendriks¹

2021

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Empirically focusing on the so-called anti-gang, a civilian policing group in the city of Goma (DRC), this article examines the nexus between the workings of the imagination and the politics of everyday policing. Four forms of political imaginations through which the anti-gang imagine themselves as everyday policing actors are identified: political imaginations around the state, citizenship, the father, and martial arts and action movies. The article makes two main arguments. First, political imaginations are not merely fantasies. Instead, the anti-gang harness them to do political work and impose themselves as street authorities. In doing so, they in turn contribute to giving form to these political imaginations, by making them tangible and experienced as real in everyday urban life. Second, the article asserts that the political imaginations that shape and are shaped by anti-gang practices show that they do not so much propose a new political order. Instead, they seek to be included in it, escape marginalisation and become politically significant.

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Multilingualism

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact

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From the Hood to Public Discourse: The Social Spread of African Youth Languages

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Linguistic Marginalia: A Special Issue on African Urban Youth Language (AUYL) Practices

Linguistic Marginalia: A Special Issue on African Urban Youth Language (AUYL) Practices

Imagining the anti-gang: the state, the father and Jean-Claude Van Damme

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