Foundational Concepts of Decolonial and Southern Epistemologies

Sinfree Makoni is a Professor in Applied Linguistics and African Studies, Director of African Studies and Interim Director of the Africana Research Centre at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He holds Extraordinary Professorship, Visiting Professor and Researcher positions at several South African institutions: North-West University, Nelson Mandela University, University of the Western Cape and University of Zululand. Anna Kaiper-Marquez recently began her role as Director of Family Literacy at National Center for Families Learning, USA. Her professional and research interests include English language learning and literacy in international contexts, adult and family language and literacy practices, and language practices and methodologies in the Global South. Magda Madany-Saa has a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research interests include decolonial theory and methodology, critical interculturality, language policy and translanguaging. She is a language teacher educator with experience in Poland, Ecuador and the US.  Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His teaching and/or research interests span multilingualism (in higher education), language policy, terminology and decolonial approaches to sociolinguistics. He is co-editor with Sinfree Makoni of Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Routledge, 2023).

Acknowledgments and Gratitude



Foreword



Chapter 1. Sinfree Makoni, Anna Kaiper-Marquez and Bassey Antia: Introduction



Chapter 2. Jean Comaroff: Theory from the South: Thinking Out Loud About Decolonization



Chapter 3. Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide



Chapter 4. Molefi Kete Asante: Upending the Inhuman: Decoloniality, Postmodernism and Afrocentricity



Chapter 5. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo: The Politics of Language, Memory and Knowledge



Chapter 6. Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne: uBuntu, Nite and the Struggle for Global Justice



Chapter 7. Catherine Walsh and Walter Mignolo: Foundational Concepts and Struggles for Dignity and Life 



Chapter 8. Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples



Clarissa Jordao: Epilogue: The South Writing Back



Index