Editors' preface
Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato and Jakob R. E. Leimgruber

Part I. Introduction and a transformative development vision
Introduction
Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato and Jakob R. E. Leimgruber

1. A case for a transformative vision in the development agenda of postcolonial Africa: A Focus on colonial languages, indigenized varieties, and indigenous mother tongues
Aloysius Ngefac

Part II. African Englishes and the transformative development of postcolonial Africa
2. African Englishes – towards endonormativity?
Edgar W. Schneider

3. The Africanization of English as a significant step towards the transformative development of postcolonial Africa
Aloysius Ngefac

4. Exploring the evolution of African Englishes through diachronic corpora
Thorsten Brato

5. The Indigenization and appropriation of the English language in medical discourse in a post-colonial setting: The case of L1 features in doctor-patient HIV/AIDS consultations in some clinics in South Africa
Diana B. Njweipi-Kongor


6. Complex modification in a postcolonial contact language: The case of Cameroon Pidgin
Bonaventure M. Sala

7. The stress behaviour of words from romance languages in a postcolonial English: the case of Cameroon English
Clement Kouam

8. Cameroon English accent as the model for the Cameroonian classroom: Challenges, prospects and policy implications
Patrick Rodrigue Belibi Enama

9. The 'Doctor' title: Assessing its elastic usage in postcolonial Cameroon
Jude T. Berinyuy

Part III. Multilingualism and the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
10. Multilingualisms, identities and policies in Singapore: Lessons for the transformative development of postcolonial Africa?
Jakob R. E. Leimgruber

11. From independence to linguistic partnership for the development of Africa
Paul Zang Zang

12. Linguistic preferences in a postcolonial multilingual setting: The case of Cameroon
Wenslus Asongu

Index