Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

M. E. Kropp Dakubu and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital,
as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.


  • ISBN: 019506061X
  • ISBN-13: 9780195060614
  • Authors : M. E. Kropp Dakubu and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
  • Language : English
  • Format:  Hardcover
  • Publication Date: 6/1/1997
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Price ($AUD): $239.95

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