Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations -- Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language -- Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces -- Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana -- Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity -- Part II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics -- Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in Mozambique -- Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda -- Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon -- Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography -- Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India -- Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches -- Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography -- Part IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages -- Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan -- Chapter 12. Lamnso' English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English -- Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration -- Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics -- Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation's perspective -- Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author index