Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa - Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South

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.

About the author

Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor of Language in Society at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Language, Vernacular Discourse and Nationalisms: Uncovering the Myths of Transnational Worlds (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).

Product details

• Authors: Leketi Makalela, Makalela Leketi, Finex Ndhlovu, Ndhlovu Finex
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781788923354
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-335-4
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 394 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Bilingualism & multilingualism, African Languages, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Bilingualism and multilingualism