This edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary, team of African scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial pedagogies, literatures, and approaches to indigenous African languages. Contributors explore the impact of AI technologies such as ChatGPT for decolonial research and teaching; the transformative potential of African drama and literature, written and oral; the importance of values-based civic education; the importance of decolonizing continuous professional development for teachers; and the role of culturally sensitive curriculum around EFL.
Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities in order to promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress.
Editors’ Preface
Aloysius Ngefac, Divine Neba, and Michael T. Ndemanu
Part I. General Introduction and a Case for a Transformative Development Vision
1. General Introduction
Aloysius Ngefac, Divine Neba, and Michael T. Ndemanu
2. A Case for a Transformative Vision in the Development Agenda of Postcolonial Africa: A Focus on Language, Literature, and Education
Aloysius Ngefac
Part II. Voices from Linguists
3. The endonormative stabilisation of Cameroon English as a significant step towards the transformative development of the country
Aloysius Ngefac
4. A Critical Appraisal of the Contribution of Wolof to the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Senegal
Blasius Agha-ah Chiatoh and Rodrick Lando
5. A Pragma-Rhetorical Investigation of Ejagham at Libations: A Discourse Analysis Approach
Beyang Oben Ojongnkpot
6. A Neocolonial Linguistic Mindset: Attitudinal Tendencies of Cameroon Francophone English Speakers
Clement Kouam
7. Acquisition of Some Aspect Constructions in Basaá
Rodolphe Prosper Maah
8. ChatGPT and CxG: A Critical Appraisal for Constructionist Research and Teaching in Postcolonial Africa
Thomas Hoffmann
Part III: Voices from Literary Critics
9. Reception and Management of Oral Literature in Cameroon: New Perspectives to Old Stories
Divine Che Neba
10. Rethinking Religion in a Changing Africa: A Reading of Francis Ateh’s Seat of Thorns
Eleanor Anneh Dasi
11. Oral Literature and Sustainable Development: The Case of Cameroon
Frida Mbunda-Nekang
12. Counter-Stigmatisation as Transformative Process: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe as Response to Joseph Conrad’s Racist Undertones in Heart of Darkness
Eric NgeaNtam
Part IV: Voices from Educationists
13. Reconceptualizing the Curriculum through Values-based Education: Teaching Civic Education for Transformative Outcomes without the Nomenclature
Michael T. Ndemanu
14. Informal and Formal Education in Postcolonial Africa through Oral Literature
Nol Alembong
15. Decolonising Educational Practices in Postcolonial Africa: Insights from the Field of Teachers’ Continuous Professional Development in Cameroon Secondary Education
Clovis D. Mbeudeu
16. Culturally Responsive and Socially Adapted Curriculum for Teaching EFL in Postcolonial Africa: Views, Attitudes, Stakes, and Implications
Kenmegne Tchapgnouo Elvire
17. The Intentionality of African Renaissance, Higher Education Multicultural Curriculum: An Endogenous Transformative Development for the African Knowledge-Based Societies
Bafon Joel Nshom
Notes on Contributors
Index
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