Rethinking Multilingualism in the National Assembly
- Oluwaseun T. Bakare(corresponding author)
- Department of Political Science, Sample University (SAMPLE)
- * Corresponding author
- Pages
- pp. 45–62
- DOI
- Assigned once JHTS joins Crossref
- Received
- 27 November 2027
- Accepted
- 15 February 2028
- Published
- 26 March 2028
- Licence
- OA CC BY 4.0
Abstract
Nigeria’s constitution allows legislators to speak Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, but English remains the language of the National Assembly. This paper reads parliamentary records alongside theories of linguistic justice to ask what a genuinely multilingual legislature would require. It proposes a model of interpreted debate that treats language rights as part of political representation.
Cite this article
Bakare, O. T. (2028). Rethinking Multilingualism in the National Assembly. Journal of Humanities and Transcultural Studies, 2(1), 45–62. http://localhost:3000/articles/multilingualism-in-the-national-assembly