Decolonising multilingualism in Africa : recentering silenced voices from the global South / Finex Ndhlovu and Leketi Makalela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndhlovu, Finex, 1970- author.

Makalela, Leketi, author.

Series:

Critical language and literacy studies ; 26.

Critical language and literacy studies ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Africa.

Language policy--Africa.

Decolonization--Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2021]

Summary:

This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South.

Contents:

Intro

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/NDHLOV3354

Contents

Series Editors' Preface

Preface

1 Myths We Live By: Multilingualism, Colonial Inventions

2 Unsettling Colonial Roots of Multilingualism

3 Unsettling Multilingualism in Language and Literacy Education

4 Decolonising Multilingualism in Higher Education

5 Decolonising Multilingualism in National Language Policies

6 African Vehicular Cross-Border Languages, Multilingualism Discourse

7 African Multilingualism, Immigrants, Diasporas

8 Multilingualism from Below: Languaging with a Seven Year Old

9 Recentring Silenced Lingualisms and Voices

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788923378

1788923375

9781788923361

1788923367

OCLC:

1259593337