All Outputs (3)

Decolonizing Cameroon's language policies: a critical assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Kamdem, S., Ojongnkpot, C., & van Pinxteren, B. (2025). Decolonizing Cameroon's language policies: a critical assessment. Applied Linguistics Review, 16(2), 1007-1029. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2023-0273

Due to its colonial history and prevalent multilingualism, Cameroon is a country where language policies have profoundly impacted socioeconomic and political life. Cameroon has 273 local languages and two official languages, English and French. The t... Read More about Decolonizing Cameroon's language policies: a critical assessment.

Investigating the opportunities and challenges for African languages in public spaces: an introduction (2023)
Journal Article
Wildsmith-Cromarty, R., Reilly, C., & Kamdem, S. (2023). Investigating the opportunities and challenges for African languages in public spaces: an introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44(9), 765-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2222105

This introduction to the Special Edition provides a rationale for the inclusion of the selected articles. We begin with a consideration of various factors that led to the marginalisation of African languages, including the hegemony of English, coloni... Read More about Investigating the opportunities and challenges for African languages in public spaces: an introduction.

From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon (2020)
Book Chapter
Kamdem, S. (2020). From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon. In G. Forlot (Ed.), Variation linguistique et enseignement des langues : le cas des langues moins enseignées (233-251). Presses de l'INALCO. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pressesinalco.39822

Cameroon is officially a French English bilingual country, but it is actually highly multilingual with 286 local languages, all at various levels of standardisation. But from colonial times, and despite the Independence in 1960, none of the local lan... Read More about From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon.