Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Colonization, Globalization and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction -- 2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa -- 3. The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa -- 4. African Modernity, Transnationalism and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique -- 5. The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets -- 6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The Case of Morocco -- 7. The Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal -- 8. On the Futurology of Linguistic Development -- 9. Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili -- 10. Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian Novel -- 11. From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality -- 12. Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First Century -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.