Contents -- Editorial: A Fresh Quest for New Language Bearings in Africa -- A Survey of Literacy Practices in Black and Coloured Communities in South Africa: Towards a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies -- English Variety for the Public Domain in Kenya: Speakers' Attitudes and Views -- The Globalisation of Communication and the African Foreign Language User -- Linguistic Human Rights in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Indigenous Languages in Kenya -- 'What turns you on!': An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts -- Challenges of Using English as a Medium of Instruction in Multilingual Contexts: A View from Ugandan Classrooms -- Enlightenment and Attitudes of the Nigerian Elite on the Roles of Languages in Nigeria -- Establishing a National Standard and English Language Curriculum Change in Kenya -- The Functional Distribution of Setswana and English in Botswana -- Kiswahili as Vehicle of Unity and Development in the Great Lakes Region -- Developing and Promoting Multilingualism in Public Life and Society in Nigeria -- Course Design and Testing in an English Programme.