Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: An Introduction
摘要
Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate. In particular, radio broadcasting has had many challenges to accommodate a variety of indigenous languages. This chapter introduces chapters that seek to reconceptualise multilingualism on African radio in order to foster more liberating and inclusive ways for indigenous languages. As such, this chapter provides a comprehensible context for the issues raised in the book. Informed by the Afrikology perspective, the chapter argues that Afrocentric scholars should tackle their African issues and redefine multilingualism from a more informed African perspective. The chapter summarises key issues discussed in the 11 chapters, presenting cases of multilingualism on radio in South Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. It further argues that there must be a clear distinction between Eurocentric and the Afrocentric concept of multilingualism.