nationalism, Mona Baker

The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English, and Tagalog Slang in the Philippines

March 29, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Vicente L. Rafael The Journal of Asian Studies / FirstView Article / March 2015, pp 1 – 20 DOI: 10.1017/S0021911814002241, Published online: 24 March 2015 This paper examines the role of language in nationalist attempts at decolonization. In the case of the Philippines, American colonial education imposed English as the sole medium of instruction. Native students were required to

A New Fanonian Moment? The Legacy of Frantz Fanon

March 22, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Protest Movements, Translation

Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 13-15, 2015 by HAMZA HAMOUCHENE Frantz Fanon died a few months before Algeria’s independence in July 1962. He did not live to see his adoptive country becoming free from French colonial domination, something he believed had become inevitable. This radical intellectual and revolutionary devoted himself, body and soul to the Algerian National liberation and was a

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Africa, Algeria, Egypt, Frantz Fanon, nationalism, Tunisia