Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Chapter 1 African multilingualism re-defined: 'I am because you are' -- Chapter 2 History of language war and its sociolinguistic output -- Chapter 3 Language inventions and the role of missionary linguists -- Chapter 4 Myths and controversies on policy implementation -- Chapter 5 Mutual inter-comprehensibility: A case against the number of African languages -- Chapter 6 Conversation analyses and high order thinking: A case for harmonization -- Chapter 7 Beyond boundaries to full linguistic repertoires -- Chapter 8 Sankofa, decolonization and shifting multilingual lenses -- Chapter 9 Ubuntu translanguaging: Implications for language policy and education -- Chapter 10 Not eleven languages: Harmonizing and translanguaging in concert -- References -- Index