Unsettling coloniality of language: English in contexts colonized by other languages

This chapter joins the critical body of literature that is developing alternative epistemologies into the sociopolitical and sociolinguistic intricacies of English in the peripheries, reflecting the exigency of nuanced knowledges in accounting for the peripheries’ multilingualisms, postcolonial malaises and vulnerabilities to colonial workings. The chapter draws on the coloniality of language as an analytical lens for reading new meanings into Morocco’s language policy conundrums. The coloniality of language is examined through its overarching implications for the peripheries’ epistemological positionalities as they are reflected in the states’ political language planning and policies. Copyright © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Finex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni; individual chapters, the contributors.