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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

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African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

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This open access edited volume brings together a team of African linguists to explore how English and its indigenized varieties, alongside other ex-colonial languages and their indigenized varieties, interact with the holistic transformation of the continent. Contributors explore linguistic evolution and developments towards endonormativity; 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 multilingualisms in 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

Editors' preface
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 9 x 6 inches
Series Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Aloysius Ngefac

Aloysius Ngefac is Professor at University of Yaou…

Anthology Editor

Paul Zang Zang

Paul Zang Zang is Professor at University of Yaoun…

Anthology Editor

Thorsten Brato

Thorsten Brato is Professor at University…

Anthology Editor

Jakob R. E. Leimgruber

Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Professor of English Lin…

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