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Preface (Gabriel Mba) ; ; Editors' Preface (Jeff Good and Pierpaolo Di Carlo) ; ; Biographical Notes ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Introduction ; ; African Multilingualisms: Understanding the Diversity of Multilingualisms in Sub-Saharan Africa ; ; Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Diversity of Multilingualisms in Rural Spaces ; ; 1. Multilingualism among the Mbororo of the North-West Region of Cameroon: An Overview ; ; Pius W. Akumbu and Esther P. Chie ; ; 2. Nuances in Language Use in Multilingual Settings: Code-Switching or Code Regimentation <span style="font-weight:bold;"> in Lower Fungom?' ; ; Rachel A. Ojong Diba ; ; 3.

The So-Called Royal Register of Bafut within the Bafut Language Ecology: Language Ideologies and Multilingualism in the Cameroonian Grassfields ; ; Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Ayu'nwi N. Neba ; ; 4. Multilingualism as It Unfolds: Language Vitality in Naturally Occurring Speech in Kelleng, a Rural Setting in Cameroon ; ; Emmanuel Ngué Um, Marguérite G. Makon, and Célestine G. Assomo ; ; 5. An Ecological Approach to Ethnic Identity and Language Dynamics in a Multilingual Area (Lower Casamance, Senegal) ; ; Alexander Yao Cobbinah ; ; 6. Multilingualism and the Paradox of Language Creation: The Case of Lítâ (Research Note) ; ; Gratiana Ndamsah ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Multilingualisms in Contact ; ; 7.

Multilingualism in Rural Africa: A Case Study of Ossing Village in Cameroon ; ; Tabe Florence A. E. ; ; 8. Spaces and Interactions in Multilingual Repertoire Construction: A Case Study in an Urban Area of Casamance (Senegal) ; ; Ndiémé Sow ; ; 9. Analyzing Court Discourse in a Multilingual Setting: The Case of the Buea Court of First Instance ; ; Endurence M. K. Dissake and Gratien G. Atindogbé ; ; 10. Multilingualism and Language Ideologies in the Context of War: The Case of Refugees from Boko Haram in the Minawao Camp in the Far North Region of Cameroon (Research Note) ; ; Amina N. Goron ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Methodologies for the Study of Rural Multilingualisms ; ; 11.

What an Ethnographically Informed Questionnaire Can Contribute to the Understanding of Traditional Multilingualism Research: Lessons from Lower Fungom ; ; Angiachi D. Esene Agwara ; ; 12. Ways to Assess Multilingual Competence in Small, Unwritten Languages: The Case of Lower Fungom ; ; Gabriel Mba and Angela Nsen Tem ; ; 13. Essentialism and Indexicality in a Multilingual Rural Community: The Case of Lower Bafut in North-West Cameroon ; ; Margaret Chenemo and Ayu'nwi N. Neba ; ; About the Contributors

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.