Sinfree Makoni

From 1999-2001 Dr. Makoni was the Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Fellow at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is a native of Southern Africa, did his graduate work in Ghana and received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has extensive professional experience in Southern Africa, including Chair of Linguistics at the University of the Western cape and associate professor of language and literature at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is former president of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association and an Executive Board member of the International Applied Linguistics Association. He has research in the socio-historical construction of African urban languages, agrammatism and language in health in multilingual communities in the US and Africa. Dr. Makoni's recent CO-edited books include: Black scholars on Black languages: problems and possibilities, (London:Routledge in press). Ageing in Africa: Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches( London:Ashgate 2002), Freedom and Discipline: Essays in Applied Linguistics from Southern Africa, Bahri, India (2001), Language and Institutions in Africa, (Cape Town: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society in Africa (2000)), Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in southern Africa. (Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press,2000).

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