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Western perspectives in applied linguistics in Africa
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ColonialismSouth African HistoryLinguistic AnthropologyLinguistic EcologyAfrican DiasporaGlobal StudiesSocial SciencesPostcolonial AfricaIndigenous African LanguagesIndigenous LanguageAfrican HistoryWestern African StudiesHistorical LinguisticsLanguage StudiesAfrican LanguageLanguage PromotionAfrican Language Media StudiesSociolinguisticsWestern ViewAfrican StudiesWestern PerspectivesAfrican HumanitiesLinguistic ProjectsAfrocentricityAnthropologyLinguistics
The aim of this article is to analyze the nature of the historical and contemporary social contexts within which applied linguistics in Africa emerged, and is currently practiced. The article examines the challenges ‘local’ applied Linguistics in Africa is confronted with as it tries to amplify applied linguistic programs emanating from Europe and North America. The article argues that seemingly progressive applied linguistic projects interconnect in consolidating a western view of Africa in postcolonial Africa. In this way these projects end up mirroring the very theories which they seek to challenge.