Language Policy During Both Colonial and Post-colonial Eras in Morocco: Aspects of a Double Marginalization of Imazighen

Alalou, Ali

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-57308-8_25

The Palgrave Handbook of Language Policies in Africa 2024

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57308-8_25

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Language Policy During Both Colonial and Post-colonial Eras in Morocco: Aspects of a Double Marginalization of Imazighen

Ali Alalou

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The Politics of Memory: NLP Models as Liberating Artifacts

Hassan

2024

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The main argument of this article is that natural language processing (NLP) projects of Indigenous African languages can be understood as an effort to restore and preserve Africa’s memory in the digital. Language has always occupied a particular place in the African decolonial imaginary. Several African states embarked on processes of Africanisation of postcolonial institutions in their respective national contexts. One of the main features of this project in many African countries was the restoration of African languages in education and public service. Taking a social constructivist approach rooted in science and technology studies and looking through the analytical lens of decoloniality in Africa, I conceptualise NLP models of Indigenous African languages as liberating artifacts. I mobilise decolonial theory to look at language as a technology that can be used to dis-member and re-member the African subjects of their memory of being as people. The coloniser erased the memory of the African subjugated by cutting off their linguistic connections and instead planted the European memory. From this perspective, decolonisation can be understood as a process of re-memberment that can be achieved through the return of the languages of those whose humanity has been denied or questioned. In this sense, NLP projects offer instances of the digital that represent spaces of restoration and negotiated digital futurities. I contend that these digital spaces in Africa are social spaces of contestation about what common investments should be made, what collective futures are desirable and what are the perceived material consequences of such shared imaginations.

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The Politics of Memory: NLP Models as Liberating Artifacts

Hassan

2024

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Language Policy During Both Colonial and Post-colonial Eras in Morocco: Aspects of a Double Marginalization of Imazighen

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The Politics of Memory: NLP Models as Liberating Artifacts

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