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What if Africa dared. Linguistic way out

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An official linguistic union of African nations, such as Dr. Maxime Vignon proposes, is an original yet practical way of tackling the African continent’s colonial past in a struggle to identify national and pan-African languages that truly unite citizens of given nations instead of dividing them. As Vignon clearly states, the idea of a “United States of Africa” of sorts is not a new idea, yet Vignon’s proposal contains an innovative element that has not been previously articulated in this manner by earlier generations of African intellectuals such as Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Cheikh Anta Diop.

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Maxime VIGNON

Maxime Vignon est Professeur à l'Université d'Alabama, où il occupe les fonctions de Coordinateur des affaires des étudiants africains et internationaux en linguistique et études francophones de l'école doctorale, Directeur du programme UA in Benin et Codirecteur du programme UA in France. Ses recherches s'inscrivent dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, avec un intérêt principal pour la linguistique, notamment le contact des langues, la sociolinguistique, la phonétique, la traduction et l'acquisition d'une langue seconde, tout en intégrant des domaines connexes tels que les études francophones et africaines, l'esclavage et les religions ancestrales, la géopolitique et le commerce international. Professeur Vignon est auteur de plusieurs articles et ouvrages scientifiques, dont What if Africa Dared: A Linguistic Way Out et Et si l'Afrique osait?

Vignon sees the construction of an African linguistic union as key to bettering the quality of life for many, if not all, on the continent. What if Africa Dared? is a well-written study that is of great appeal to a variety of interdisciplinary scholars. Vignon’s expertise as a linguist shines through, but readers also quickly discover the many dimensions of this emerging scholar’s pertinent and timely research. This work will certainly leave its impression on the field of African studies, especially in African linguistics but also in other areas. Vignon has successfully reintroduced the topic of a pan-African unity through a largely linguistic study, and he is able to achieve his goal because of the Afro-central eye that he brings to this research. Although trained in part in the United States, Vignon and his intellectual journey have not been entirely westernized and it is, in fact, his ability to combine two spheres of knowledge and thought into one scholarly study that allows him to present a most convincing argument.