ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at the unequal relationship between institutions of higher learning in the Global North and their satellite campuses in the Global South, such as those in the Arab states. It suggests that there should be reflexivity in the handling of terminology drawn from Western scholarship and restraint in interactions between the Global North and the Global South, if local ways of speaking and knowing are not to be destabilized. The book exposes the epistemic violence and othering practices in Sudanese linguistics. It examines multilingualism in higher education in South Africa as misconceived from a monolingual nation-state perspective. The book explores how democratization and the participation of linguistic minorities in society’s affairs can be achieved. It also explores the use of mother tongues among staff and students at a university in Kenya.
