{"title":"The Decolonisation of African Languages: Insights from Southern Africa","authors":"P. Chimbunde, Maserole Christina Kgari-Masondo","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2022.2138957","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, we draw inspiration from the learners’ movement witnessed at the University of Cape Town in 2015, which raised concerns similar to those raised at the Malaysia Conference in 2011 and at University College London in 2014. These concerns focused on the quest for non-Eurocentric paradigms in education. This article evaluates the progress made thus far to decolonise the use of African languages to fight linguicide. Thus, the article seeks to identify, describe, and evaluate what has been done in Southern African countries to answer the decolonial call and its challenges through discussing the prevailing problems of decolonising language policies. Using the decolonisation lens and document analysis, we use South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies to check the urgency of the effort and then propose tentative actions that go beyond the rhetoric and writings of the decolonisation agenda.","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"53 1","pages":"5 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Matters","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2022.2138957","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In this article, we draw inspiration from the learners’ movement witnessed at the University of Cape Town in 2015, which raised concerns similar to those raised at the Malaysia Conference in 2011 and at University College London in 2014. These concerns focused on the quest for non-Eurocentric paradigms in education. This article evaluates the progress made thus far to decolonise the use of African languages to fight linguicide. Thus, the article seeks to identify, describe, and evaluate what has been done in Southern African countries to answer the decolonial call and its challenges through discussing the prevailing problems of decolonising language policies. Using the decolonisation lens and document analysis, we use South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies to check the urgency of the effort and then propose tentative actions that go beyond the rhetoric and writings of the decolonisation agenda.
期刊介绍：
The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.
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