African Literacies: Ideologies, Scripts, Education

Yonas Mesfun Asfaha obtained an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and a PhD from Tilburg University, Netherlands, and is a recipient of an Elva Knight research grant from the International Reading Association. An expert on early reading development and multilingual literacy and language policy, Yonas is currently Assistant Professor of Eritrean Languages at the College of Arts and Social Sciences at Adi Keyih, University of Asmara, in Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.

Ashraf Abdelhay holds a PhD in the field of Sociolinguistics from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests lie in the area of language planning and policy in the Sudan, focusing on the intersections between discourse, ideology and power relations. He was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Associate at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Contributing authors: Dmitry Bondarev, Sokhna Bao-Diop, Charlyn Dyers, Abderrahman El Aissati, Sarita Monjane Henriksen, Sjaak Kroon, Jeanne Kurvers, Friederike Lüpke, Abdel Rahim Mugadam, George Ladaah Openjuru, Fatima Slemming, Abba Tijani, Fie Velghe and the editors.