Rose Asantewaa Ansah guides us through the chapters in a new book edited by Susan Wairimu Mahachi, Sinfree Makoni and Phoebe Quaynor: "Reimagining Decoloniality Through Fluid Ways of Knowing: Watery…

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SUMMARY Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning: Decolonial Theories and Practices, edited by Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Gorski Severo, Ashraf Abdelhay, and Alissa J. Hartig, examines the epistemological foundations of language policy and planning (LPP). In doing so, it asks what it means to ‘decolonise’ the field. The volume spans diverse contexts and engages with core concepts in LPP, particularly its roots in Western academic traditions. The volume includes fifteen chapters, alongside a

Sinfree Makoni, Liberal Arts professor of African studies and applied linguistics and director of the African Studies program in the College of the Liberal Arts, has been awarded the 2026 President’s ...

SUMMARY The edited volume “Entanglements: Between decolonial and southernizing linguistics” by Sinfree Makoni, Unyierie Idem, Edwin Appah Dartey, and Bassey Antia offers a window into what a pluriversal linguistics might look like when the co-existence of diverse ontologies and epistemologies of language is taken seriously. As the fifth volume to emerge from the African Studies Global Virtual Forum (AFGVF), it brings together critical language scholars whose personal and intellectual trajecto

In the dynamic field of Applied Linguistics, few names resonate as deeply as Professor Sinfree Makoni. Known for his pioneering work on decolonial sociolinguistics and Southern epistemologies,…

In order for decolonization to avoid becoming yet another orthodoxy, this book argues that it is necessary to recognize the neoliberal ideologies and ...