The role of language in the struggle for liberation in Africa: a comparative study of Tanzania and Mozambique situations

This dissertation deals broadly with the development of language in relation to the basic social structures in two African countries i . e. Tanzania and Mozambique.It starts by giving out a historicali background to the language situation in these two countries. In Tanzania it starts with the British rule, not because German rule did not affect the language situation in (Tanganyika, but because British rule was common to both Tanganyika and Zanzibar. It later deals with the language policies of both Tanzania and Mozambique in the post independence period and trying to relate them to the social forces prevailant at this time. Since the choice of a national language has not yet been f inalised in Mozambique, the dissertation finally gives suggestions on how to choose and to develop a national language so that it becomes an effective means of self expression and self-manifestation of the people as a nations.