Chikumbutso Manthalu is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education and History of Educational Thought in the Education Foundations Department, School of Education at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.Victor Chikaipa is a Senior Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Linguistics, Digital Media and Political Communication in the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.Anthony Mavuto Gunde is a Research Fellow in the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.

• Introduction PART I: PEDAGOGY FOR EQUALITY 2. No Ubuntu here: monologic addressivity in Malawian higher education. 3. Towards communication for equality: reconfiguring pedagogical relations in teacher education 4. Legal education pedagogy: A policy perspective plea to sub-Saharan African legal scholarship 5. Schools as sites for cultivating democratic citizens: Communication through learner voice in Malawian secondary schools. 6. The impacts of multi-lingual educational approach in enhancing democratic values in multi-ethnic societies: the case of Ethiopia 7. ‘There is no English outside the classroom’: a historical interrogation of the language of instruction policy in Tanzania 1961-2019. PART II: COMMUNICATION FOR TRANSFORMATION 8. Examining the intersection of democracy, teacher education and ICT: insights from Malawi 9. A rhetorical analysis of affirmative action debate towards higher education access in Malawi’s democracy 10. Media education, democratisation and media capture at Malawi broadcasting corporation PART III: EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND INCLUSION 11. Higher education, gender and the quest for democratic communication in Sub-Saharan Africa: a feminist perspective 12. The social psychology of disability in higher education: examining the experiential dimension of disablement in Malawi. 13. Re-imagining discourses of disability at higher education institutions in democratic Malawi. 14. Citizenship education, democracy and communicative practices in Zimbabwe: Towards a Freirean-Habermasian framework for civic learning in teacher education 15. Dismantling structures of dehumanisation in Nigeria’s education system: Lessons from African traditional education and communication 16. Mission education and its impact on the construction of African social identities in colonial Malawi (1875-1935). 17. Conclusion: Concretizing democratic deliberation through education

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