Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa - (Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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 bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

Aloysius Ngefac is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. He is the founder and general coordinator of TRANG (Transformative Research and Networking Group). He has published several books related to his research interests in sociolinguistics, world Englishes, postcolonial pragmatics, creolistics, transformative research, and transformative development.

Divine Che Neba is Associate Professor of African Literature at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. He promotes African Literature through lectures, publications and ethno-anthropological surveys and has also explored minority and subversive literatures. He has published widely in renowned national and international journals.

Michael T. Ndemanu is Associate Professor of Curriculum Development and Multicultural Education at Ball State University, Indiana, USA, where he researches multicultural education, curriculum theory, comparative education, and social foundations. He is Executive Director of the Global Institute for Transformative Education, USA; Secretary of the International Association of African Educators; and a member of the Governing Council of Curriculum and Pedagogy Group as well as several other professional organizations.