Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora:Africa's diversity is best illustrated linguistically. Thousands of endogenous and exogenous languages are linked to and central to the identity and reality of Africans. Language is a vital lens for analyzing these multifaceted challenges in Africa, where deeper understanding of entire linguistic landscape is germane to understanding socio political and cultural systems. Concentrating on instrumental and emblematic functions of language in Africa,