Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

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This is a timely and welcome addition to the burgeoning body of scholarship on language and communication in times of crises. It draws our attention to the importance of digital literacies and e-learning platforms in the communication of critical health information in marginalised multilingual communities. Measured in its aspirations yet far-reaching in policy implications, this volume deserves a space on the bookshelf of any serious scholar or student of applied and educational linguistics. * Finex Ndhlovu, University of New England, Australia * Makalela and White have assembled a timely and powerful volume that addresses the global reliance on digital communication. The multimodal studies from Sub-Saharan Africa illustrate the disrupting power of technology to break down linguistic borders around African languages imposed by colonization, and to empower speakers to translanguage and create connections across the diaspora. * Tatyana Kleyn, The City College of New York, CUNY, USA * This book breaks new ground in addressing how African languages and cultures are influenced and changed in digital communication. It explores multilingual practices in digital spaces and the use of digital technologies for performing arts. This is a must-read for anyone interested in digital communication in Africa and the diaspora. * Felix K. Ameka, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands * Theoretically and through its research examples Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa is of value not just to students of language and society in Africa but to researchers interested in the theory and practice of digital communication and the study of minority languages around the world. -- Michael Carrier, Highdale Consulting, UK * Training, Language and Culture, Volume 5 Issue 3, 2021 * [This] is a timely book that describes digital communication in Africa by offering examples of digital communication

in Africa during the pandemic. This book discusses the priorities, difficulties, and innovative practices experienced during this period. * Dallel Sarnou, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Algeria, Language in Society 52:1 (2023) *