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  • Trajectorial dynamics of English in Rwanda: Non-postcolonial English in an Outer Circle country

  • Bebwa Isingoma
  • Journal:
    English Today , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 January 2025, pp. 1-7
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  • This study aims to uncover the dynamics of the evolution of English in Rwanda, using Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model. Even though Rwanda has had no history of British colonial rule or that of any other Anglophone country, it currently presents a situation of a non-postcolonial environment where English plays a preponderant role on a par with many dimensions of the status of English in Outer Circle counties such as Uganda or Ghana. Despite the fact that the Dynamic Model was primarily meant to account for the evolution of English in postcolonial environments, its applicability (with a few caveats) to the current linguistic situation in Rwanda provides a robust articulation of the trajectorial development of English in this country.