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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Aloysius Ngefac (Anthology Editor) , Paul Zang Zang (Anthology Editor) , Thorsten Brato (Anthology Editor) , Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (Anthology Editor)
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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Aloysius Ngefac (Anthology Editor) , Paul Zang Zang (Anthology Editor) , Thorsten Brato (Anthology Editor) , Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (Anthology Editor)
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This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision for Africa with a focus on ex-colonial languages, indigenized varieties and indigenous mother tongues. In doing so, they explore linguistic evolution and developments towards endonormativity, investigate the correlation between the Africanisation of English and transformative development, the indiginization of medical terminology in HIV/AIDS consultations, the interactions of Romance languages with local English varieties, and resonances between decolonizing multilingualisms in Singapore and Africa.
Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities and ultimately promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Table of Contents
Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato and Jakob R. E. Leimgruber
Part One: Introduction and a transformative development vision
Introduction
Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato and Jakob R. E. Leimgruber
A case for a transformative vision in the development agenda of postcolonial Africa: A Focus on colonial languages, indigenized varieties, and indigenous mother tongues
Aloysius Ngefac
Part Two: African Englishes and the transformative development of postcolonial Africa
African Englishes – towards endonormativity?
Edgar W. Schneider
The Africanization of English as a significant step towards the transformative development of postcolonial Africa
Aloysius Ngefac
Exploring the evolution of African Englishes through diachronic corpora
Thorsten Brato
The Indigenization and appropriation of the English language in medical discourse in a post-colonial setting: the case of L1 features in doctor-patient HIV/AIDS consultations in some clinics in South Africa
Diana B. Njweipi-Kongor
Complex modification in a postcolonial contact language: The case of Cameroon Pidgin
Bonaventure M. Sala
The stress behaviour of words from romance languages in a postcolonial English: the case of Cameroon English
Clement Kouam
Cameroon English accent as the model for the Cameroonian classroom: Challenges, prospects and policy implications
Patrick Rodrigue Belibi Enama
The 'Doctor' title: Assessing its elastic usage in postcolonial Cameroon
Jude T. Berinyuy
Part Three: Multilingualism and the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Multilingualisms, identities and policies in Singapore: Lessons for the transformative development of postcolonial Africa?
Jakob R. E. Leimgruber
From independence to linguistic partnership for the development of Africa
Paul Zang Zang
Linguistic preferences in a postcolonial multilingual setting: The case of Cameroon
Wenslus Asongu
Notes on Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | Nov 13 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350510074 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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