@article{2ec74b9edd9249eba3183d0927866998,
title = "Western perspectives in applied linguistics in Africa",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike Meinhof",
note = "Funding Information: Initiatives for the development of Africa based materials is progressing not only in Africa but outside Africa as well. For example, Kaplan and Baldauf have initiated a series of monographs as part of the journal of Current Issues in Language Planning. Although focusing on language planning these publications provide useful and up to date information on different aspects of the social, political, linguistic and educational aspects of African countries. Monographs on Botswana, South Africa (Kamwangamalu 2000), Malawi (Kayambazinthu 1998; C{\^o}te d{\textquoteright}Ivoire (Djite, 2000), Tunisia have already been published and a number of monographs on other African countries may be prepared in future. These monographs update and complement earlier publications reporting on research funded by the Ford Foundation on Language in Africa in the 60s and 70s, for example, John Spencer{\textquoteright}s article {\textquoteleft}Colonial language Policies and their legacies{\textquoteright} in the edited collection by Thomas Sebeok: Current Trends Linguistics. More recently, a special issue focusing on Applied Linguistics in Africa, AILA Review (16) was published (Makoni and Meinhof 2003).",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1075/aila.17.09mak",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "77--104",
journal = "AILA Review",
issn = "1461-0213",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
number = "1",
}