Tribalism, Linguae Francae and the Emerging States

Unpublished paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York City, October 1961.I hope to have related the use of linguae francae to the development of the emerging states, using by way of illustration Sango, the lingua franca of the Central African Repoblic, the former territory of Ubangi Shari in French Equatorial Africa