Countries throughout the Sub-Saharan (SSA) region have a complex linguistic heritage This paper asserts that socially built ruling macro language markets also need to be considered with regard to other, self-defined, community meso- and individual micro-language markets and their opportunities for social, economic and political growth. It establishes the validity of Omoniyi's (2014) plea for the call to focus on the language capital notion within multilingual Sub-Saharan African (SSA) contexts as compared to Bourdieu's linguistic capital notion.