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Centering the African experience, two world-renowned African sociolinguists push back on the language coloniality that continues to permeate the study of multilingualism, multilingual education, language policy, and language education research in the Global South. Inverting the power relationship between the Global South and the North, Ndhlovu and Makalela decolonize understandings of multilingualism everywhere.

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Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

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I find Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa to be cohesive, resourceful and well written. It is a welcome addition to the literature on sociolinguistics in Africa and the Global South in general – and I consider it to be required reading for graduate seminars in colonial and post-colonial language ideologies and practices.

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Nkonko Kamwangamalu, Howard University, USA, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022

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[This book] advances the field of multilingualism studies both in Africa and globally. Indeed its international relevance is enhanced by the approach of presenting fine-grained research conducted in Africa as illustrations of
decoloniality within language theorising. Future multilingualism research will certainly benefit from both the critiques of the coloniality of language and the propositions of decolonial linguistic concepts contained within the pages of this book.

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Robyn Tyler, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Multilingual Margins 2021, 8(1)

«This book contributes to the growing interest in southern decolonial linguistics. It reanimates important earlier discussions of the plurality of southern multilingualisms and the linguistic citizenship of individuals and communities with narratives that encourage rethinking the coloniality of language. In reminding us of the many forgotten 20th century contributors to southern decolonial scholarship, the authors accentuate the persistent circulation of colonial hegemonies.»

Kathleen Heugh, University of South Australia