Description: Decolonising Multilingualism in AfricaRecentering Silenced Voices from the Global South Author(s): Finex Ndhlovu, Leketi Makalela Format: Paperback Publisher: Multilingual Matters, United Kingdom Imprint: Multilingual Matters ISBN-13: 9781788923347, 978-1788923347 Synopsis 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 under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the diasporas.
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Book Title: Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: History
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Weight: 278 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Leketi Makalela, Finex Ndhlovu
Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Item Width: 148 mm
Format: Paperback
