Language, Culture and Decolonisation

Fanon has written that colonialism gets under the skin of the colonized by taking control of a people’s history, language, and culture―and denigrating all three. Exploring this reality, the authors of Language, Culture and Decolonisation draw on history, politics, philosophy, and literary studies to put forth a range of arguments about the importance of indigenous languages in the formation and expression of postcolonial identity.

CONTENTS:
* Introduction: Language and Decoloniality in Context―D. Boucher.
* Decolonisation and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Circulations and Language in the Postcolonial Word―C. Smões de Araújo.
* Language in Africa and the Impossibility of an African Philosophy of Liberation―M.J. Lamola.
* The Place of Colonial Languages in Decolonial Philosophy and Practice―B. Sibanda.
* Decolonialising the Language of Personhood―M. Tshivhase.
* African Literature as Self-Interpretive: The Prospects of Indigenous Reading Modes―I. Chukwumah.
* Cultural Decolonisation and the (Im)Possibilities of Literary Language―S.E. Egya.
* Revealing the Power of Language and Developing Theory from Historical Artifacts―S.H. Kumalo.
* Colonialism, Politics of Belonging, and the Reinvention of African Cultures: The Case of South Africa―S. Ndlovu.
* The Turn to Tradition: Colonialism, Class, and the Making of Zulu Identity―B. Ngqulunga.
* The Politics of Knowledge Production and Publishing: The Case of the Zulu Society―J. Sithole.
* Minority Language Revitalization: European Conundrums―C.H. Williams.