Felix Banda

TL;DR: The authors used the notion of repurposing to show how people from rural areas of Livingstone and Lusaka in Zambia (South Central Africa) extend the repertoire of "signs" to include faded and unscripted signboards, fauna and flora, mounds, dwellings, abandoned structures, skylines, and village and bush paths (with no written names) in narrations of place.

TL;DR: This paper explored the challenges and possibilities of orthographic reforms allowing for mobility across language clusters, ethnicity, regional and national borders, and argued that this entails a different theorisation of language, and for orthographies that account for the translocations and diasporic nature of late modern African identities and lifestyles.

TL;DR: This paper explored the production of hybrid cultural identities in Zambian online news websites using extracts from five popular online newspapers, namely Lusaka Times, The Post, Kachepa360, Zambia Reports and Zambian Watchdog, and concluded that harnessing and representations of this cultural capital and these diverse voices in the (co)(n)texts not only constitute the peculiarities of the heteroglossic (and even heterotopic) practices of speakers/writers, but also demonstrate that language and culture are products of social activities.

TL;DR: The authors used a moment in history, the lead up to presidential elections, to capture the semiotic transformation of linguistic landscapes of a multilingual African country, Zambia, using observations and observations.