Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Professor Aloysius Ngefac editor Associate Professor Divine Che Neba editor Associate Professor Michael T Ndemanu editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:27th May '27
£28.99
This title is due to be published on 27th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial approaches to language, literatures, and pedagogies. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision with a focus on language, literature and education. In doing so, they investigate the contribution of Wolof to the transformative development of postcolonial Senegal, analyse the impact of endonormativity on the transformation of Cameroon, and explore the impact of AI technologies such as ChatGPT on decolonial research and teaching in Africa. They discuss the transformative potential of oral and written African literature, the importance of values-based civic education and decolonizing continuous professional development for teachers, and the role of culturally sensitive curriculum around EFL.
Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities in order to promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on Bloomsbury Collections. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
This book realigns the ongoing paths toward the transformation of Africa, from its previous colonizer-dependent models to one of joint, all African action, addressing the linguistic, scientific, educational and sociocultural factors upon which its future depends. A must read, for anyone concerned about Africa’s place in our shared global future. * Ian Hancock OBE FRSA *
This compendium is a significant contribution to the ongoing quest of development of Africa as it proposes a novel vision encapsulated in the transformative development model from which African people can draw for the development of the continent. The volume goes beyond economic and industrial components of development and proposes an analytical framework that suits African realities and priorities. As such, it is a masterpiece one can rely on for the development of Africa. It is an indispensable book for the shelves of scholars of all disciplines. * Canadian Journal of African Studies *
ISBN: 9781350509566
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280 pages