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 Glo...

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).
Leketi Makalela works in the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests include translanguaging, African multilingualism and African languages and literacies.

Product details

• Authors: Leketi Makalela, Makalela Leketi, Finex Ndhlovu, Ndhlovu Finex
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781788923347
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-334-7
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 278 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; 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