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• WP353 Linguistic citizenship in Africa

  Stroud & Chimbutane

  2026

  Many thinkers on the cusp of African independences, wrestling with the question of how to ensure participatory and agentive fellowships for new, postcolonial beginnings, found themselves engaging with language. Franz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and …

  Key words: agency, decoloniality, inequity, Linguistic Citizenship, voice

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• WP344 Changing conceptions of literacies, language & development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa

  Kerfoot

  2025

  This text is the introduction to a thesis by publication which was published in 2009. The thesis prefigures several contemporary debates in multilingual language and literacy education, notably southern and decolonial approaches which advocate …

  Key words: adult basic education, adult literacy, agency, citizenship, critical applied linguistics, development, multilingualism, reflexivity, resemiotisation, voice

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• WP298 Pressing times, losing voice: Critique and transformative spaces in higher education

  Benswait & Pérez-Milans

  2022

  In this article we examine our own doctoral supervisory dialogue as it has been institutionally interrupted due to Ahmad’s application for asylum in the UK. As we find ourselves lacking the conditions of recognisability required for our actions to …

  Key words: critique, higher education, pedagogy for precarity, social transformation, voice

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