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This book investigates African Youth Languages (AYLs), their growth and their centrality to modern urban youth identities in Africa. These language practices of youth in African communities have come to represent new generations of Africans intersected by global culture but with their own cultural practices and creativity woven into the fabric of their language use. Two places where this is seen most clearly is in forms of music popular with youth, and in linguistic innovation on new information communication platforms, or social media.
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Hurst-Harosh, E., Kanana Erastus, F. (2018). An Overview of African Youth Language Practices and Their Use in Social Media, Advertising and Creative Arts. In: Hurst-Harosh, E., Kanana Erastus, F. (eds) African Youth Languages . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_1
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