Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa

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.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Myths We Live By: Multilingualism, Colonial Inventions           Chapter 2. Unsettling Colonial Roots of Multilingualism  Chapter 3. Unsettling Multilingualism in Language and Literacy Education             Chapter 4. Decolonising Multilingualism in Higher Education        Chapter 5. Decolonising Multilingualism in National Language Policies     Chapter 6. African Vehicular Cross Border Languages, Multilingualism Discourse Chapter 7. African Multilingualism, Immigrants, Diasporas            Chapter 8. Multilingualism from Below: Languaging with a Seven Year OldChapter 9. Recentering Silenced Lingualisms and Voices

This book contributes to the growing interest in southern decolonial linguistics. It reanimates important earlier discussions of the plurality of southern multilingualisms and the linguistic citizenship of individuals and communities with narratives that encourage rethinking the coloniality of language. In reminding us of the many forgotten 20th century contributors to southern decolonial scholarship, the authors accentuate the persistent circulation of colonial hegemonies.