Decolonising multilingualism in Africa recentering silenced voices from the global South / Finex Ndhlovu and Leketi Makalela.
| Author/creator | Ndhlovu, Finex, 1970- |
| Other author | Makalela, Leketi. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2021] |
| Description | xviii, 189 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical language and literacy studies; 26 |
| Contents | Preface -- MYTHS WE LIVE BY:MULTILINGUALISM, COLONIAL INVENTIONS -- UNSETTLING COLONIAL ROOTS OF MULTILINGUALISM -- UNSETTLING MULTILINGUALISM IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION -- DECOLONISING MULTILINGUALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- DECOLONISING MULTILINGUALISM IN NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICIES -- AFRICAN VEHICULAR CROSS BORDER LANGUAGES, MULTILINGUALISM DISCOURSE -- AFRICAN MULTILINGUALISM, IMMIGRANTS, DIASPORAS -- MULTILINGUALISM FROM BELOW: LANGUAGING WITH SEVEN YEAR OLD -- RECENTERING SILENCED LINGUALISMS AND VOICES. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021011127 |
| ISBN | 9781788923347 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781788923354 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (kindle edition) |