Handbooks of Language Policies in Africa
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Michael M. Kretzer
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Russell H. Kaschula
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This book series covers the entire African continent on a national scale in order to provide a holistic overview of multilingualism and the language policies. Due to its country-by-country structure all African countries receive the same attention and space. For usability purposes, the countries are grouped in the different regional economic communities (RECs):
- Volume I: SADC
- Volume II: EAC & ECCAS
- Volume III: ECOWAS
- Volume IV: AMU & COMESA
These volumes of the series focus primarily on language-in-education policies (LiEP). The book series aims to describe and analyse the diverse challenges of LiEP for the entire African continent using a standard structure for each chapter to ensure readability. Book chapters will be mainly contributed by authors based in Africa.
- Volume I: SADC
- Volume II: EAC & ECCAS
- Volume III: ECOWAS
- Volume IV: AMU & COMESA
These volumes of the series focus primarily on language-in-education policies (LiEP). The book series aims to describe and analyse the diverse challenges of LiEP for the entire African continent using a standard structure for each chapter to ensure readability. Book chapters will be mainly contributed by authors based in Africa.
Michael M. Kretzer completed his Ph.D. in Human Geography in 2018 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Since 2020 he has worked at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany and in 2022 was appointed as a research fellow and Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Western Cape. He researches education systems and language policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Linguistic Landscapes and health crisis communication. He has published book chapters, including in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, and articles in international journals such as the International Journal on Multilingualism, Current Issues in Language Planning and the South African Geographical Journal.
Russell H. Kaschula is Professor in the Department of African Language Studies at the University of the Western Cape where he is the Postgraduate Coordinator. He also holds the newly established Chair in Forensic Linguistics and Multilingualism at that university. He has a particular interest in language and crime, literary geography, and sociolinguistics and has published widely in the field of Applied Language Studies. His most recent book is Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond (Routledge, 2021). He also co-edited the A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and beyond (SUN Press, 2021).
Russell H. Kaschula is Professor in the Department of African Language Studies at the University of the Western Cape where he is the Postgraduate Coordinator. He also holds the newly established Chair in Forensic Linguistics and Multilingualism at that university. He has a particular interest in language and crime, literary geography, and sociolinguistics and has published widely in the field of Applied Language Studies. His most recent book is Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond (Routledge, 2021). He also co-edited the A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and beyond (SUN Press, 2021).
Everyone involved in language policy, education, economics and development, geography, development or area studies and African studies will benefit from such a holistic and innovative overview.