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Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea

I first read this paper a few years ago, but I think it’s worth a re-read because found it to be very informative. It came out in April of 2003 in the African Studies Review, here is the abstract: After an Eritrea nationalist movement gained Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia in 1991, the newly formed government [...]

March 5, 2008  Tags: Eritrea, language policy, Tekle M. Woldemikael  Posted in: Eritrea, Journal articles, language  One Comment

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