African Languages, Development and the State (1994)
Book
Fardon, R., & Furniss, G. (Eds.). (1994). African Languages, Development and the State. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203422571

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development