African Englishes Contemporary Trends and Sociolinguistic Shifts

1. The English Language in Africa: Contemporary Trends and Sociolinguistic Shifts  

Collen Sabao and Esther Mavengano  

2.The Complicated Dynamic History of African Englishes and Challenging Linguistic Pyramids  

Esther Mavengano  

3. Towards Assimilation and Elision in English language in Cameroon: A Study of the University of Dschang  

Wenslus Asongu and Franklin Koulanoudji  

4. Rejecting Narratives of Marginalisation and Endangerment: The Future of Zambian Indigenous Languages in the Era of Supposed English Domination  

Gabriel Simungala and Eunice Mukonde - Mulenga  

5. The Sociolinguistic Description of Tanzanian English: A Perspective on Nativisation  

Nichodamus Robinson  

6. The Future of the English Language in South Africa: Protest and Promise of a New Dispensation  

Temba T. Rugwiji  

7. Extralinguistic and Pragmalinguistic Sociolinguistic Characterisations of Namibian English (Namlish) Across Ethnolinguistic Groups  

Collen Sabao  

8. Tanzanian English and the Ideological Politics of Language in Concepts, "Good" and "Bad" English (es) in Public Secondary Schools  

Deniza Joash Nyakana  

9. Exploring ‘Namlish’ as an English second language variety in Namibia  

Clarina Museta, Martha Nahole and Mercy M Simataa  

10. The Future is Bright: The Dominance of English and the Decline of Sesotho in a Changing Society, Lesotho  

Lesole Kolobe  

11. The ‘English’ Divide: Navigating Linguistic Hierarchies in the Post-Colony, Botswana  

Karuna Datta-Bhatnagar  

12. Englishisation of the Oshiwambo language in Namibia  

Petrus Mbenzi  

13. Semantics of Selected Social Media Expressions and Their Impact on Students Learning Skills: A Case Study of Bertoua University Learners  

Constantine Kouankem and Karen Ferreira-Meyers  

14. Acceptability of Grammatical Features in Educated Ghanaian English, Using Tolerability Scale  

Nancy Boahemaa Nkansah, Frank Amofa Sarpong and Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful  

15. Western “Standard Englishes” and “Cameroon Englishes”: Why not partners?  

Wenslus Asongu and Franklin Koulanoudji  

16. Beyond Language Blends in New Englishes: Rethinking Cultural Linguistic Empowerment and Exploring True Emancipation in African Literature  

Alfred Ndi  

17. The Transformative Influence of Indigenous Languages on African Englishes  

Tinashe Charles Matiyenga and Nthabiseng B. Khoalenyane  

18. African Englishes: Through Our Voices, We Reclaim Our Narrative  

Esther Mavengano and Collen Sabao

Biography

Collen Sabao is an Associate Professor Linguistics, Literature and Communication in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the University of Namibia. Prof. Sabao’s research interests lie in the areas of Phonetics and Phonology, Political Discourse, Media Discourse, Pan Africanism, Afrocentricity, Appraisal Theory, Argumentation, World Literatures and Rhetoric. He has published extensively in these areas, with quite a sizeable number of journal articles and chapters in internationally referred publications.

 Esther Mavengano, is a lecturer who teaches Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and Literary Studies obtained from North West University in Mafikeng, South Africa. Her research areas maintain the interface of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and Anglophone African literary studies.