Lynn Mafofo Editor

Cristine Severo is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and a Research Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Brazil. She leads the Critical Language Policy research group at UFSC and advances Southern perspectives on language policy within decolonial frameworks.

Sinfree Makoni is Full Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored over 120 articles and co-edited more than 15 books, accumulating over 10,000 citations. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh for international leadership in decolonial applied linguistics.

Ashraf Abdelhay is an Associate Professor in Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and a former Research Associate and Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Southern language ontologies and decolonial approaches to language policy.

Lynn Mafofo is Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator in Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research draws on critical multi-semiotic discourse analysis to examine linguistic practices in identity construction, protest discourse, and media representations in multicultural societies.