The aim of this article is to analyze the nature of the historical and contemporary social contexts within which applied linguistics in Africa emerged, and is currently practiced. The article examines the challenges ‘local’ applied Linguistics in Africa is confronted with as it tries to amplify applied linguistic programs emanating from Europe and North America. The article argues that seemingly progressive applied linguistic projects interconnect in consolidating a western view of Africa in postcolonial Africa. In this way these projects end up mirroring the very theories which they seek to challenge.
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Abdelhay, Ashraf Kamal
2010. The politics of writing tribal identities in the Sudan: the case of the colonial Nuba Policy. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31:2 ► pp. 201 ff.
Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.
2007. 2007 SOPHE Presidential Address: On Being Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable: Centering an Africanist Vision in Our Gateway to Global Health. Health Education & Behavior 34:1 ► pp. 31 ff.
Wendy Ayres-Bennett & John Bellamy
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Banda, Felix
2010. Defying monolingual education: alternative bilingual discourse practices in selected coloured schools in Cape Town. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31:3 ► pp. 221 ff.
Banda, Felix & Omondi Oketch
2009. ‘What can we say when the English used has gone so high-tech?’: institutionalised discourse and interaction in development projects in a rural community in Kenya. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 4:2 ► pp. 165 ff.
Barwell, Richard
2012. Heteroglossia in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms. In Towards Equity in Mathematics Education [Advances in Mathematics Education, ], ► pp. 315 ff.
Bylund, Emanuel, Zainab Khafif & Robyn Berghoff
2023. Linguistic and geographic diversity in research on second language acquisition and multilingualism: An analysis of selected journals. Applied Linguistics
2009. Fromibharutoamajoin: translocation and language in a new South African township. Language and Intercultural Communication 9:4 ► pp. 256 ff.
Esch, Edith
2011. Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers about Language Education. In Discourses of Deficit, ► pp. 235 ff.
Guzula, Xolisa, Carolyn McKinney & Robyn Tyler
2016. Languaging-for-learning: Legitimising translanguaging and enabling multimodal practices in third spaces. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 34:3 ► pp. 211 ff.
2019. Disinventing and reconstituting language for learning in school Science. Language and Education 33:2 ► pp. 141 ff.
Pennycook, Alastair & Sinfree Makoni
2005. The Modern Mission: The Language Effects of Christianity. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 4:2 ► pp. 137 ff.
SEVERO, Cristine Gorski
2016. A invenção colonial das línguas da América. Alfa : Revista de Linguística (São José do Rio Preto) 60:1 ► pp. 11 ff.
Turner, Irina
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