Korle Meets the Sea

For hundreds of years, Accra, the capital of Ghana, has been a linguistic anomaly that contains forty-four indigenous languages, of which most members of its population speak at least two, Using linguistic, historical, and ethnographic techniques, Dakubu explores the origins and durability of this multilinguilism and how it has affected Ghanaian society. In the process her work also contributes to the expansion of methodological horizons in the field of sociolinguistics.