Lessons from India on decolonising language and thought at universities

By Dilip Menon. In South Africa’s bad old days white people spoke English or Afrikaans. These were the languages of command. When needing to engage with those who didn’t speak English, whites could use Fanagalo – a pidgin based on Zulu and peppered with English and some Afrikaans. It was developed on the country’s mines and was good for giving orders, if not having a conversation. More...