African literacies
Subtitle: ideologies, scripts, education
By: edited by Kasper Juffermans, Yonas Mesfun Asfaha and Ashraf Abdelhay
Contributors: Yonas Mesfun Asfaha, editor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781443858335
Subjects: Literacy; Multilingualism; Multilinguisme
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: ch. One; title: African Literacy Ideologies, Scripts and Education  -- Kasper Juffermans -- ch. Two; title: Lessons in Textspeak from Sexy Chick: Supervernacular Literacy in South African Instant and Text Messaging  -- Fie Velghe -- ch. Three; title: Beneath the Surface? Contemporary Ajami Writing in West Africa, Exemplified through Wolofal  -- Sokhna Bao-Diop -- ch. Four; title: Performance of Multilayered Literacy: Tarjumo of the Kanuri Muslim Scholars  -- Abba Tijani -- ch. Five; title: Script Choice and Power Struggle in Morocco  -- Abderrahman El Aissati -- ch. Six; title: The Politics of Literacy in the Sudan: Vernacular Literacy Movements in the Nuba Mountains  -- Ashraf Abdelhay -- ch. Seven; title: Englishing, Imaging and Local Languaging in the Gambian Linguistic Landscape  -- Kasper Juffermans -- ch. Eight; title: Rural Livelihoods Literacies and Numeracies and their Implications for Adult Literacy Pedagogy: The Case of Bweyale in Uganda  -- George Ladaah Openjuru -- ch. Nine; title: Ideologies of Language and Bilingual Education in Mozambique  -- Sarita Monjane Henriksen -- ch. Ten; title: Building Early Reading on Syllables and Cultural Literacy Practices: Evidence from Eritrea  -- Jeanne Kurvers -- ch. Eleven; title: Neither Helpless nor Hopeless: Portable Multiliteracies, Discourses and Agency in a "r;Township of Migrants"r; in Cape Town  -- Fatima Slemming -- ch. Twelve; title: Plural Formations of Literacy and Occam's Razor Principle: A Commentary -- Sinfree Makoni.