Author Description

About the Author Ayo Bamgbose is the Nigerian National Merit Award Laureate and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ibadan. Ayo Banjo is professor of English and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Andrew Thomas is the Assistant director at the British Council in charge of English and Education in West Africa From the Back Cover This book represents a unique addition to the ongoing world-wide discussion of the status of English as a world language. Contributions from distinguished scholars across West Africa-and other parts of the world-examine the ramifications of the language as a second or foreign language, including its position in various national language policies, within the educational system and as a medium of a distinctive and vigorous literature. Contributors examine the varieties of the languages that have arisen in the course of the coexistence between the English language and the numerous indigenous languages of West Africa and report on a number of related projects in progress.