Bio
Mohamed Dellal is a retired Senior Lecturer affiliated with Mohamed I University in Morocco. He holds multiple degrees including MPhil from Strathclyde, Glasgow, a Doctorat d'Etat Marocain from Oujda, a Licence in Public Law from Oujda, and a Master in Geopolitics, Security and Defence. He has contributed scholarly work in African cultural and philosophical studies, as well as education, and serves as a reviewer for academic journals.
Educational Journey
University of Strathclyde
MPhil
Oujda
Doctorat d'Etat Marocain
Experience
Editors Role
Reviewer
GJHSS
2017 - PresentResearch
A Miscarriage of History: The Case of Adria K. Lawrenceas Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire
The writing of history, as always, has been subject to biases, most of the time from those who call the shots, but sometimes from factors so insidious that it is very difficult to isolate them. Books of history written by approved authorities as well as by independent ones, are replete with such examples I do not have space for in this work. I need, however, to draw a line between deliberately sidestepped factors and those that, for one reason or another, have been omitted. My concern in this paper is to highlight the factors that, willingly or not, are overlooked by the author of the book under focus for what I think are ideologically motivated reasons. Pragmatists (Donald Davidson 2001b; 2004; Richard Rorty 1979;1982; Willard Van Quine 1969;1990) and language philosophers (Gontard 1981), indeed, speak of a cultural phenomenon, a driving force among intellectuals, constituted by popular ideas (opinions and thoughts or ethical norms) which, quite often act as doxatic1 factors that either favor alignment behind them or condemn dissident voices. It is, therefore, a major concern of this paper to show that Lawrence, the author has fallen victim of such a phenomenon by truncating chunks of vital historical information of the colonies she has studied, and more particularly the Moroccan one.
On the Decolonisation of African Languages
The present paper argues – against all odds – that advocating the rehabilitation of national languages (NL) in ―ex-colonized countries‖, as the case may be with Ngugy‘s call in his now famous book Decolonising of the Mind: the Politics of Languages in African Literature (1981) is a slight of hand as it overlooks a number of factors namely the political, economic, social and ethnic hazards that could follow from such an endeavor. Several arguments are brought forth in support of the claims made by the present paper notably the shortcomings of the arguments brought by such advocates as well as examples of failuresof linguistic nationalization policies in ex-colonial countries. Among the basic arguments advanced to that effect are: (i) the language market dominated by the Western languages especially English; (ii) the legacy of the past as an economic factor that should be looked at as an asset rather than a liability; (iii) the politicization of the linguistic issue considered as a stunt done more in pride than in realistic and pragmatic considerations.
