Associate Professor Finex Ndhlovu

Associate Professor , Language in society/Sociology of language - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Finex Ndhlovu

Phone: +61 2 6773 2133

Email: fndhlovu@une.edu.au

Twitter: @FinexNdhlovu

Biography

Associate Professor Finex Ndhlovu is South African by heritage, Zimbabwean by birth and Australian by choice.  His research interests sit at the cutting edge of contemporary linguistic and socio-cultural theories around language, identity and sociality in relation to transnational African migrant and diaspora communities; educational linguistics; epistemologies of the South, Indigenous traditions of knowing and decolonial theories. A key focus of his work is on how we might operationalise ‘decolonising’ as a methodology and an approach for charting the next steps in search for solutions to practical language-related problems in educational and other social policy areas. Associate Professor Ndhlovu has has several academic publications consisting of a strong combination of research monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, journal articles and non-traditional research outputs. He is passionate about nurturing an outstanding cohort of future research and academic leaders through higher degree research student supervision.

Qualifications

B.A. (Hons), M.A., Grad. Dip. Ed., PhD (Monash)

Teaching Areas

LING244 Language and the Law
LING150/ 350Communicating in Culturally Diverse Contexts
LING371/LING571 Sociolinguistics and Language Ecology
LING552 Intercultural Communication

Supervision Areas

Potential topics for research students include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Language policy and politics
  • Language, culture, development, identity
  • Discourses on 'language' and language definition traditions
  • Multilingualism and multilingual education
  • Language, globalisation and trans-nationalism
  • Teaching English as an additional language in multilingual settings
  • Language and intercultural communication – beliefs and practices
  • Migrant language practices in rural and regional contexts
  • Multilingualism and multilingual discourses – beliefs, practices, myths and fallacies
  • English monolingualism and attitudes towards multilingualism
  • Metalinguistic awareness in professionals who deal with culturally diverse clients
  • Language-in-education policy and literacy
  • Translanguaging and translingual practices
  • Decolonial and Southern epistemologies

Primary Research Area/s

Multilingualism and multilingual education; Language and literacy education; Southern, Indigenous and decolonial epistemologies; Educational linguistics; Language, migration, diasporas; Sociolinguistics of migration; African studies; Intercultural and cross-cultural studies

Research Interests

Language policy and politics, multilingualism and multilingual citizenship, language and identity formation, African migrant languages and identities, cross-border languages and trans-national identities, African Diaspora identities, language-in-migration policies, language and citizenship, postcolonial African identities, and language and discourses of everyday forms of exclusion in Australia and Africa.

Current Research Projects

  • Language in the Uniform: Communication for Policing Multilingual Regional Australia, with colelagues from the Centre for Rural Criminology,  University of New England.
  • Counter-discourses and Politics from Below – Voices of the Youth in Benguela Province, Angola, with colleagues from Dalarna University, Sweden and Institute for Political Studies, Portuguese Catholic University.

Research Supervision Experience

Completed

2023
Prashneel Ravisan Goundar (PhD): Writing Skills for Undergraduate Students in Fiji: Tackling Educational Inequalities, Facilitating Epistemic Access. Percentage of supervision: 70%.
2022
Rafi Abu Saleh (PhD): A Translanguaging Pedagogies Investigation into Bangladesh’s Language in Education Policy Conundrum. Percentage of supervision: 80%.
Leei Sung (PhD): Teaching and Learning Linguistic Politeness in Chinese as an Additional Language: An Australian Context. Percentage of supervision: 60%.
2021
Porpan Chairat (PhD): Representation on Thai Manufacturers’ Websites: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Percentage of supervision: 50%.
2020
Linda McIntosh (Masters): Theorising Language Attitudes in the Borderlands: The Case of Albury-Wodonga Communities. Percentage of supervision: 100%
Megan Gartside (Masters): Simpel, kan? Class, Culture, and Communicative Function: Factors Influencing Translanguaging Practices in South Jakarta. Percentage of supervision: 100%
2019
Malek Abu-Rabie (PhD): Jordanian-Australians’ Perception and Practice of Compliments. Percentage of supervision: 75%.
Prerna Bakshi (PhD): Language-in-Education Policy and Educational Problems in Mewat.. Percentage of supervision: 60%
Callum Calyton-Dixon (MPhil): Decolonising the Anaiwan Language. Percentage of supervision: 60%.
2018
Adedamola Eyitayo Olagbegi (PhD): Migration of African skilled professionals to Australia and the African diaspora. Percentage of supervision: 60%.
Jackie Coffin (Masters): The Sociolinguistics of Native Title Claims: The Noongar and Native Title. Percentage of supervision: 100%.
Annie Edwards-Cameron (Honours): Do It Yourself Language: Minority Language use in DIY Punk Culture.  Percentage of supervision: 100%.
2017
Thoai Ton Nu Linh (PhD): Vietnamese Terms of Address: Pragmatic Connotations, Translation and ESL/EFL Pedagogy. Percentage of Supervision: 70%.
Arvind Iyengar (PhD): Sindhī Multiscriptality, Past and Present: A Sociolinguistic Investigation into Community Acceptance. Percentage of supervision: 70%.
Sura Alani (PhD): Portrayal of Terrorism and Corruption in Iraqi Non-Commercial Advertisemsnts: Gender, Images and Metaphors. Percentage of Supervision: 100%.

2016
Jesta Mutinda Masuku (PhD): Language, Discourse, Survival Strategies: The case of Cross-border Traders in Southern Africa. Percentage of supervision: 80%.
Sameen Motahhir (PhD): Negotiating a Hybrid Identity: A Discursive Analysis of Higher Education Muslim ESL learners. Percentage of supervision: 50%.
2013
Arvind Iyengar (Masters, Passed with High Distinction): Self-perceptions of Heritage Language Shift among Young Sindhis in Pune. Percentage of supervision: 100%.
Nathan Albury (Honour, Passed with High Distinction): Iceland: Applying Spolsky’s Four Determinants of Language Policy. Percentage of supervision: 100%.
2011
Phuc Thien Le (PhD): Transnational Variation in Linguistic Politeness in Vietnamese: Australia and Vietnam. Percentage of supervision: 50%

Currently being supervised

  • Danielle Davis (PhD): Black Existentialism, Freedom and Being Plural. Expected completion date, June 2024. Percentage of supervision: 100%
    Linda McIntosh (PhD): Rural Australian monolingualism: An ethnographic study of host community attitudes towards migrant languages spoken in Albury-Wodonga. Expected completion date, October 2024. Percentage of supervision: 70%
    Issah Hassan Tikumah (PhD): Tribalism, Conflict and Education in Post-War Liberia and Sierra Leone: Comparative Perceptions from the Diaspora Communities in Australia. Expected completion date, December 2024. Percentage of supervision: 50%
    Peter Deng Garang (PhD): Role of Translanguaging in Education: Improving Education Experience for African bilingual Learners in Australia schooling. Expected completion date, March 2026.Percentage of supervision: 80%
    Edwin Chris Odhiambo (PhD): From Colonial Linguistic Vestiges Towards an Ecosystem of Inclusive Political Governance in Kenya. Expected completion date, February 2026. Percentage of supervision: 70%
    Abeer Alabdaly (PhD): Language and Stigmatized Identity:  An  Analysis of Cancer-Related Stigma in Patients' Narratives. Expected completion date, June 2026.Percentage of supervision: 70%
    Victoria Norford (PhD: Translanguaging in Heritage Language Education: Effects on Language Use, Learner Identity and Literacy. Expected completion date, August 2027. Percentage of supervision: 70%.
    Claire Ramos (PhD): Investigating the Inclusivity and Relevance of Australian Public Holidays. Expected completion date, July 2026. Percentage of supervision: 70%.
    Liang Joo Leow (PhD): The Interpreter: Servant to Meaning or Master of Words? Expected completion date, March 2026. Percentage of supervision: 40%
    Jonathan Guthmann (PhD): Textual Networks, Vernacular Bibles and Language Standardisation in Early Modern Europe. Expected completion date, July 2025. Percentage of supervision: 40%
  • Recent External Thesis Examination

      2023: Prichard Bhebhe: The implementation of Translanguaging in Selected Schools in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.

      2023: Lydia T. Chibwe: South Africa's Immigration Policy towards Zimbabweans and the Complexity of the Porous Border. University of Pretoria, South Africa.

      2022: Dashielle Amber Allain: Expanding Multilingual and Intercultural Knowledge as Expertise: Young People Arriving in Australia as Refugees Navigating Education-to-Employment Trajectories, University of South Australia

      2022:Claire Eloise Moran: Afrocentric Youth Perspectives of Belonging on Social Media, Monash University

      2022: Yueying Zeng: Factors impacting technology use among teachers teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Queensland secondary schools, University of Queensland.

      2022: Sumaira Dost Mohammad (MED): The Value of the Learner's Mother Tongue (L1) in English Language Learning, Tabor College, South Australia

      2021: Necia Stanford Billinghurst: Hearing and Heeding ‘the other side’: (Re)-centring the Southern Multilingualisms and Lived Realities of South Sudanese Women in Australia’. University of South Australia.

      2020: Cynthia Desree Butler: Strategies Employed by Teachers to Assist Grade 4 Learners’ Transition from Mother-tongue Instruction to English as a Medium of Instruction. University of Fort Hare, South Africa.

      2020: Precious Dube: Analysing Writing Competence of Learners in Selected Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe. University of Fort Hare, South Africa.

    • 2017: Nophawu Madikiza. English Frist Additional Language Teachers’ Awareness and Implementation of Reading Strategies at Senior Phase in Mtata District.  University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
    • 2017: Hala El Saj. Language Maintenance and Cultural Identity among Lebanese-Australian Families’. University of Queensland, Australia.
    • 2016: Mandisi Majavu. The Fact of Uncommodified Blackness: The Lived Experience of Black Africans in Australia and New Zealand. University of Auckland, New Zealand.
    • 2015: Robert Maseko. Being a Black Miner in South Africa: The Case of Anglo Platinum Mine. Rhodes University, South Africa.
    • 2015: Martin Garang Aher. The Past in the Present: Culture Shock, Integration and Sudanese Migrant Youth in Western Australia. Curtin University, Australia.
    • 2014: Morgan Ndlovu. Cultural Villages in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Decolonial Perspective. Monash University, Australia.
    • 2013: Sindiso Lorraine Zhou. Cross-linguistic Interface between English and Zimbabwean Indigenous Languages. University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
    • 2013: Ismail Wadi. Living between two Cultures: The Integration of Sudanese into Australian Society. Victoria University, Australia.
    • 2012: Raphael Nhongo. An Investigation into Shona and Ndebele ESL Competence and Performance. University of Fort Hare, South Africa.

    Publications

    For the latest, please see ResearchGate or Google Scholar

    Books Sole-Authored

    Ndhlovu, F. (2018). Language, Vernacular Discourse and Nationalisms: Uncovering the Myths of Transnational Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan. London. ISBN 978331976134, pp. 410.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2015). Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa: Identity, Integration, Development. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars publishing. ISBN 978144877077, pp. 234.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2014). Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia: Language, Culture, Identity. Palgrave. London. ISBN 9781137414311, pp. 239.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2009). The Politics of Language and nation Building in Zimbabwe. Peter Lang: Bern. ISBN 9783039119424, pp. 240.

    Books Co-Authored

    Ndhlovu, F. & Masuku, J.M. (forthcoming). Pan-African Integration from Below: Language, Publics, Culture.Port Elizabeth: Mandela University Publishing.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2024). Language and Decolonisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach. London: Routledge.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Makalela, L. (2021). Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South. Critical Language and Literacy Series. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781788923354.

    Kamusella, T. & Ndhlovu, F. (2017). The Social and Political History of the Languages of Southern Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319579184, pp. 426.

    Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. & Ndhlovu, F. (2013). Nationalism Matters: The African National Project in an Age of Globalisation. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. ISBN 9780798303958, pp. 375.

    Book Chapters

    Ndhlovu, F. & Reite, T. (forthcoming).  Language Policy Discourse: Decolonising Ethno-tales of Economic Rationalism.  Routledge Handbook of Linguistics,  2nd edition.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2024). Trickster Habitus and the Coloniality of Language Tests. In Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J (eds). Language and Decolonisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach. London: Routledge, pp. 1-12.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Odhiambo, E.C. (2024). Decolonising the Linguistic Encirclement of Africa. In Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J (eds). Language and Decolonisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach. London: Routledge.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2024). Revisiting the True Purpose of the Discourse. In Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J (eds). Language and Decolonisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach. London: Routledge, pp. 1-14.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2024). Reframing the Struggle for New Decolonial Futures. In Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J (eds). Language and Decolonisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach. London: Routledge.

    Ndhlovu, F., Ngue Um, E. & Umunamo, V. (2023). Critical Sociolinguistics and the Imperative to Decolonise our Practice. In Del Percio, A. & Fluebacher, M-C. Critical Sociolinguistic Dialogues: The Constitution of a Field. London:Advances in Sociolinguistics, Bloomsbury Linguistics, pp. 1 -15. 

    Ndhlovu, F. (2023). Decolonizing Sociolinguistics: Unsettling Imperial Science, Centring Convivial and Frontier Scholarship. Oxford Research Encyclopedias - Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-15.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2020). Prospects for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity to Enhance African Political Governance. In H. Ware & J. I. Lahai (eds.) Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States. Governance and Limited Statehood Series: Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2020). Post-colonial Language Education or Coloniality of Language by Stealth? In A. Abdelhay, S.B. Makoni, and C.G. Severo (eds.) Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities and Semiotic Spaces of Power. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 133-151.

    Ndhlovu, F & Siziba, L. (2018). English in Southern Africa. In T. Kamusella & F. Ndhlovu (eds.) The Social and Political History of the Languages of Southern Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 65-92.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Kamusella, T. (2018). Challenging Intellectual Colonialism: The rarely Noticed Question of Methodological Tribalism in Language Research. In T Kamusella & F. Ndhlovu (eds.) The Social and Political History of the Languages of Southern Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 347-364.

    Kamusella, T. & Ndhlovu, F. (2018). Introduction: Linguistic and Cultural Imperialism, Alas.  In T Kamusella & F. Ndhlovu (eds.) The Social and Political History of the Languages of Southern Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-12.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2017). Language, Migration, Diaspora: Challenging the Big Battalions of Groupism. In O. García, N. Flores and M. Spotti (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-24. DOI: 10.1093/oxforddhb/9780190212896.013.25.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Willoughby, L. (2016). Migration, Heritage Languages and Changing Demographics in Australia. In Claire Chik (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education. Routledge pp. 22-32.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2014). On Politic Behaviour: The Personal Pronoun as an Address Term in the Ndebele Language of Zimbabwe. In K. Burridge and R. Benczes (eds). Wrestling with Words and Meanings: Essays in Honour of Keith Allan. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, pp. 176-197.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2013). The Burden of ‘National Languages’ and the Bondages of Linguistic Boundaries in Postcolonial Africa. In S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and B. Mhlanga (eds.) Bondage of Boundaries and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Africa: The ‘Northern’ Problem and Ethno-Futures. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, pp. 79-98.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2013). African National Language Question and the African National Project. In S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and F. Ndhlovu (eds). Nationalism Matters: The African National Project in an Age of Globalisation. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, pp. 121-139.

    Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J & Ndhlovu, F. (2013). Introduction: New Reflections on Nationalism, National Projects and Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century. In S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and F. Ndhlovu (eds). Nationalism Matters: The African National Project in an Age of Globalisation . Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, pp. 1-38.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2013). Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of Nationalism and Relevance of the National project in the 21st Century. In S. J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and F. Ndhlovu (eds). Nationalism Matters: The African National Project in an Age of Globalisation. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, pp. 347-361.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2010). Language Policy, Citizenship and Discourses of Exclusion in Zimbabwe. In S. Ndlovu and J. Muzondidya (eds.) Grotesque Nationalism in Africa: Essays on Zimbabwe. Bern:  Peter Lang International Publishers, pp. 195-215.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2009). Australia’s Language-in-Migration Policies: Another Site for Subtle Social Exclusion. In N. Othman and S. Govindasamy (eds.) English and Asia. Kuala Lumpur: International Islamic University of Malaysia Publications, pp. 233-260.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2007). Reflections on the Challenges of Researching Language Maintenance and Language Vitality in South-western Zimbabwe. In Nicholas Ostler and Maya David (eds.) Working Together for Endangered Languages – Research Challenges and Social Impacts. Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages, pp. 127-134.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2007). Everyday Forms of Language-based Marginalization: Focus on Zimbabwe. In R. Loughnane, C. P. Williams and J. Verhoeven (Eds.) In Between Wor(l)ds: Transformation and Translation. School of Languages, University of Melbourne: Melbourne, pp. 119-134.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2005). Zimbabwe’s Postcolonial Language Policy Formulation Paradigms – 1987 to 1998: Another Recipe for the Marginalization of Minority Languages. In Nigel Crawhall and Nicholas Ostler (eds.) Creating Outsiders: Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalization. Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages, pp. 145 – 152.

    Journal Articles

    Ndhlovu, F. (2023). Troubling Sociolinguistics Practice and the Coloniality of Universalism. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1 – 5. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/josl.12644.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2023). Unsettling Imperial Science: Centering Convivial Scholarship in Sociolinguistics. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Linguistics, 1 – 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.990.

    Ndhlovu, F., Mutongwizo, T., Mulrooney, K., & Harkness, A. (2022). Mapping Intercultural Communication Imperatives of Police-Public Interactions in Rural Spaces. International Journal of Rural Criminology 7(1), pp. 134 -147.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2022). Revisiting the True Purpose of the Discourse on Decolonising. Journal of Multicultural Discourses. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2022.2119990.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2022). Pan-African Identities and Literacies: The Orthographic Harmonization Debate Revisited. South African Journal of African Languages 42(2), pp. 207 - 215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2094057

    Ndhlovu, F. (2021). Decolonising Sociolinguistics Research: Methodological Turn-around Next? International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Editorial Board Special Issue, pp. 1-13.

    Ndhlovu, F, and Kelly, S. J. (2020). Why Ecology of Knowledges and Multilingual Habitus matter in Higher Degree Research Student Training.Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2019). Language and Citizenship Tests: Unsettling the Habitus of Trickster Global Coloniality. Social Alternatives Vol 28(4), pp. 26-34.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2019). Is Neoliberal Economic Rationalism the Panacea for Africa’s Language Policy Dilemmas? WORD Vol 65(2), pp. 122-127.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2019). Reading Robert Mugabe through the Third Chimurenga: Language, Discourse, Exclusion. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, pp. 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-019-09333-8.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2019). South Africa’s Social Transformation Policies: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Neoliberal Rhetoric. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, pp. 1-17. DOI:10.1080/17447143.2019.1592177.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2019). Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders: Racial Ideologies, Metaphors and Language of Legitimation. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (CRAWS) E-Journal. https://acrawsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CRAWS-First-Glimpse_NDHLOVU-1.pdf.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2018). Omphile and his Soccer Ball: Colonialism, Methodology, Translanguaging Research. Multilingual Margins Vol 5(2), pp. 5-22.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2018). Can the Other be Heard? Response to Commentaries on ‘Omphile and his Soccer Ball’. Multilingual Margins Vol 5(2), pp. 45-53.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2018). Vernacular Discourse, Emergent Political Languages and Belonging in Southern Africa. Africa Review Vol 10(1) DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09744053.2017.1401783.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2017). Southern Development Discourse for Southern Africa: Linguistic and Cultural Imperatives. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 12(2), pp. 89-109 DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2016.1277733.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2016). A decolonial critique of diaspora identity theories and the notion of superdiversity. Diaspora Studies Vo.9 (1), pp. 28-40.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2015). Marginality and Linguistic Cartographies of African Denizens as Spheres of Possibility in Regional Australia. Australasian Review of African Studies Vol. 36(1) June 2015, pp. 1-15.

    Ndhlovu, F.  (2015). Ignored Lingualism: Another Resource for Overcoming the Monolingual Mindset in Educational Linguistics. Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 35 (4): 398-414.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Siziba, L. (2014). The idea of southern Africa in the humanities and social science disciplines. Africa Review Vol. 6(1), pp. 1-15

    Ndhlovu, F.  (2013). Too Tall, Too Dark to be Australian: Subjective Perceptions of Post-refugee Africans. Critical Race and Whiteness Studies e-Journal, Vol. 9(2), pp. 1-17.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2013). Language Nesting, Superdiversity and African Diasporas in Regional Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics
    Vol. 33(4), pp.426-448.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2013). How the Idea of Vehicular Cross-border Languages Misdirects Multilingualism in the African Integration Debate: A Decolonial Epistemic Perspective. Africanus Vol. 43(2), pp. 13-33.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2013). Beyond Neo-liberal Instructional models: Why multilingual instruction matters for South African skills development. International Journal of Language Studies Vol. 7(3), pp. 33-58.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2013). Cross-border Languages in Southern African Economic and Political Integration. African Studies Vol. 72(1), pp. 19-40.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2011). No to Everything British but their Language: Re-thinking English Language and Politics in Zimbabwe (2000-2008). International Research Journal: Language, Society and Culture Vol. 33, pp. 108-119.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2011). Post-refugee African Australians’ perceptions about being and becoming Australian: Language, discourse and participation. African Identities Vol. 9(4), pp. 447-465.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2011). Proposing a language-based Framework for the form and structure of United States of Africa. South African Journal of African Languages Vol. 30(2), pp. 243-253.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2010). Language Politics in Postcolonial Africa Revisited: The Agency of Minorities to Hegemonic Language Impositions. Language Matters Vol. 41(2), pp. 175-192.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2010). Belonging and Attitudes towards Ethnic Languages among African migrants in Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics
    Vol. 30(2), 283-305.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2009). The Limitations of Language and Nationality as Prime markers of African Diaspora Identities in the State of Victoria. African Identities Vol. 7(1), pp. 17-32.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2008). A Critical Discourse Analysis of the History of the Language Question in Australia’s Migration Policies: 1901 – 1957. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA) e-Journal Vol. 4(2), pp. 17-33.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2008). The Politics of Language and Nationality in Zimbabwe: Nation Building or Empire Building? South African Journal of African Languages Vol. 28(1), pp. 1-10.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2008). The Conundrums of Language Policy and Politics in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 28(1), pp. 59-80.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2008). Language and African Development: Theoretical Reflections on the Place of Languages in African Studies. Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 17(2), pp. 137-151.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2007). The Role of Discourse in Identity Formation and the Manufacture of Ethnic Minorities. Journal of Multicultural Discourses2(2), pp. 131-147. (2007).

    Masuku, J. & Ndhlovu, F. (2007). The Role of the African Languages Research Institute (ALRI) in Addressing the Language of Instruction Dilemmas in Zimbabwe. Lexikos Vol. 17, pp. 1-9.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2007). Historicizing the Socio-politics of Shona Language Hegemony in Zimbabwe. Lwati Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 4, pp. 295-313.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2006). Gramsci, Doke and the Politics of Language Marginalization in Zimbabwe. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Vol. 27 (4), pp. 305-318.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2006). Rethinking the Language of Politics in 21st Century Zimbabwe: A Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective. Lwati Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 3, pp. 222 – 234.

    Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. & Ndhlovu, F. (2005). Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Kingdom: A Case Study of Women and Captives in the Ndebele State of Zimbabwe. UNISWA Research Journal Vol. 19, pp. 59 – 71.

    Ndhlovu, F. & Masuku, J. (2004). Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Higher and Tertiary Education Curricula: The Case of Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Higher Education Vol. 18 (3), pp. 281 – 288.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2004).Land Reform and Indigenous Knowledge: A Missing Link in the Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe. Journal of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems Vol. 3 (2), pp. 147 – 156.

    Non-Traditional Research Publications

    Ndhlovu, F. (2017). Why Africa must discard borrowed robes and embrace its rich cultural resources. Radio interview with Power FM, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 February 2017. Podcast available at https://soundcloud.com/powerfm987/finex-ndhlovu_why-africa-must-discard-borrowed-robes-and-embrace-its-rich-cultural-resources.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2017). Why Africa must discard borrowed robes and embrace its rich cultural resources. The Conversation, 19 February 2017 http://theconversation.com/why-africa-must-discard-borrowed-robes-and-embrace-its-rich-cultural-resources-72752.   

    Ndhlovu, F. (2015). Vernacular Discourse, Social Cohesion and Nation-building in South Africa. Unisa Mail & Guardian Critical Thinking Forum. Mail & Guardian Newspaper Issue of 21-27 August 2015.

    Published Newspaper Articles

    Ndhlovu, F. (2014). The Language of Police Officers. The Armidale Express Extra, 28 May 2014.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2014). Telling Sign of a Person’s Background. The Armidale Express Extra, 19 March 2014.

    Book Reviews

    Ndhlovu, F. (2008). Review of Peter Mbago Wakholi, African Cultural Education and the African Youth in Western Australia: Experimenting with the Ujamaa Circle, Australasian Review of African Studies Vol. 29(1), 156-159.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2010). Review of Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne (eds.) Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa.   Australasian Review of African Studies Vol. 31(2), pp.114-118.

    Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

    Ndhlovu, F. (2007). Nationalist Ideology and the Quest for Linguistic Homogenization in Zimbabwe. In A. Razak, et al (eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Language and Nationhood: Discourses across Cultures and Disciplines. Kuala Lumpur. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, pp. 115-125.

    Ndhlovu, F. (2006). The Ndebele Spelling System: a missing Link between Orthography and Phonology. In K. Allan (ed). Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

    Conference Papers and Seminars

    2023

    • African Languages and African Studies: Theories, Debates and Controversies. Invited guest lecture presented at the University of Bayreuth’s seminar series on the theme The Changing African Idea of Africa and the Future of African Studies, 13 July 2023.

    2022

    • Why Intercultural Communication Matters Now – More than Ever Before – In Police-Public Interactions. Invited expert panel presentation, NSW & QLD Police Force Collaboration with Centre for Rural Criminology (UNE), Smart Region Incubator, 121 Faulkner Street Armidale, 29 November 2022.
    • Perhaps Southern Knowledge is the Missing Link: An Invitation to Decolonise and Indigenise our Teaching. Invited colloquium, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences & Education Lunch Seminar Series (UNE), 19 July 2022.

    2021

    • Decolonising Language-in-Education. Invited Virtual Colloquium on Critical Linguistic Education in Decolonial Perspectives in the Global South, organised by the Group of Critical and Advanced Studies in Languages (GECAL), University of Brasilia, 3 December 2021.
    • Decolonising Multilingualism: Why Decolonise? Why Language? Invited Keynote speech delivered at the 8th Language and Literacy Education Conference, Wits School of Education, Witwatersrand University, 26-27 August 2021, via Zoom.
    • Decolonising the way we Train Higher Degree Research Students. Invited Keynote Address, University of Cape Town History Access Graduate Workshop themed 'Redesigning Pasts, Relanguaging Publics’, 7 July 2021.
    • Interdisciplinary Research – Neither a Slogan nor an Option. Invited Plenary Presentation for the Next Generation Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Conversations, The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), 23 February 2021.

    2019

    • Translanguaging Pedagogies & Multilingualism Research: Methodological Innovations Next? Invited Plenary Presentation for theTranlanguaging and Multilingualism Colloquium, Department of English Studies, University of South Africa, 23 August 2019.
    • Why Ecology of Knowledges and Multilingual Habitus matter in Higher Degree Research Student Training. Invited Public Lecture presented at the Department of English Studies Seminar Series, University of Fort Hare, South Africa, 3 October 2019.
    • The Phenomenology of Multilingualism in Africa: Critical Reflections on Colonial Inventions and Language Education Policy. Invited keynote paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Language and Literacy Education, themed Multilingual Contours in Education. Wits School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 23-25 August 2019. YouTube podcast available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e3o1PkRJPs.

    2018

    • The Challenge of Migrant Heritage Language Transmission: Creative Responses from Regional Communities. Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), University of New South Wales, 21-23 November 2018.
    • Australia’s Language-in-Migration Policies: Coloniality of Language and Raciolinguistic Ideologies. Presented at the 22nd Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 June 2018.

    2017

    • The Interdisciplinary origins of Sociolinguistics: Lessons for us today. Sociolinguistics Research Group Lunch Seminar Series. CUNY Graduate Center, 9 November 2017.

    2016

    • Redefining Language Boundaries in Immigrant and Diasporic Contexts. 39th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), University of Western Australia, Perth, 5-7 December 2016.
    • Southern Development Discourse for Southern Africa: Linguistic and Cultural Imperatives. Guest Lecture presented at the Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa, 1 December 2016.
    • The Language Nesting Model: Prospects for heritage Language Transmission in Regional Australia. Presented at the Third International Conference on Language and Literacy Education. Wits School of Education, Johannesburg, 12-14 August 2016.

    2015

    • TRANSLATION, Multilingualism and the Idea of South Africa: Reflections on the Discipline and its Contributions. Keynote paper presented at the International Translation Day Colloquium, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 9 October 2015.
    • Vernacular Discourse, Social Cohesion and Nation-building in South Africa’. Keynote paper presented at the Second Social Cohesion and Nation-building Roundtable, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa, 11-12 August 2015.
    • Perhaps Decolonial Epistemology is the Answer for Southern Africa’s Development Challenges. Presented at the 1st Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Studies on the theme ‘Southern Africa Beyond the West’, Livingstone, Zambia, 7-11 August 2015.

    2014

    • Teaching African Communities Languages in Regional Australia: Prospects and Opportunities. Presented at the AILA World Congress 2014 on the theme ‘One World, Many Languages’, Brisbane, 10-15 August 2014.

    2013

    • Linguistic Cartographies of African Marginals and Spheres of Possibility in Regional Australia. Presented at the 36thAnnual AFSAAP Conference on the theme 'African Renaissance and Australia', Murdoch University, Perth, 27-29 November 2013.
    • Killing two birds with one stone: Some strategies of publishing while doing HDR Work. Seminar Presented at the Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe, 20 June 2013.
    • The Idea of Southern Africa in the Humanities and Social Science Disciplines. Presented at the 6th International Conference of the English Department, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 12-14 June 2013.
    • Teaching African Community Languages in Australia: Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges. Presented at the Bantaal Pulaar Conference, Blacktown, Western Sydney, 21-23 March 2013.
    • Language Nesting and Superdiversity in Regional Australia. Presented at the Language and Superdiversity Round Table
      , Language and Society Centre, Monash University, 21-22 February 2013.

    2012

    • Mapping Spaces for African Migrant Languages in Australia: Preliminary Findings from Regional NSW. Presented at the 35th Annual AFSAAP Conference on the theme 'Africa: People, Places and Spaces', Australian National University, Canberra, 26-28 November 2012.
    • How the Idea of Vehicular Cross-border Languages Misdirects Multilingualism in the African Integration Debate. Presented at the 6th Annual International Free Linguistics Conference, Eastern Avenue Auditorium Complex, The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, 6th-7th October, 2012.
    • The African National Language Question and the African National Project. Presented at the Roundtable for the African National Project book titled 'Nationalism Matters: The African National Project in an Age of Globalization', held at Leriba Hotel, Pretoria, 2-4 March 2012.

    2011

    • Cross-border Languages and Trans-national Citizenships: Another Linchpin of African Political and Economic Integration. Presented at the Conference on African Renaissance, Integration, Unity and Development. Organised and funded by the Social Affairs Commission of the African Union in conjunction with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the Institute for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 29 September to 1 October 2011.
    • Exploring meanings and ideas of Multilingual Education in South Africa. Presented at the Biennial Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern African (ALASA) on the theme African Languages and Identity in the 21st Century, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 18-20 July 2011.

    2010

    • "I can't become an Australian because I am always too something to be Australian": African Identities, Discourses of Exclusion and Resurgent Racism in Australia. Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) on the theme Engaging Africa, Engaging Africans: Knowledge, Representation, Politics, Victoria University City Campus, 2-4 December 2010.
    • Demography and Language: African Immigration to Australia (with Musgrave, Simon, Julie Bradshaw and Phuong Dzung Pho). Paper presented at the 33rd Annual African Studies Association of Australian and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Conference on the theme Engaging Africa/Engaging Africans: Knowledge, Representation, Politics, Victoria University, 2-4 December 2010.
    • The Potential of Language Policies in Promoting Inter/intra-ethnic Dialogue and Peace in South Sudan. Presented at the Leadership Forum on Finding Peace in the Nuer Region of South Sudan through Dialogue, 1-3 October 2010, Staff Club, Monash University.

    2009

    • Proposing a Language-based Framework for the Form and Structure of a 'United States of Africa'. Presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) on the theme Africa in Restructuring World, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, 30 September to 2 October 2009.
    • Plurilingualism and Cultural Diversity: Another Linchpin of African Political and Economic Integration. Presented at the Symposium on Federalism and the United States of Africa, Organized by Cheik Anta Diop University and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dakar, Republic of Senegal, 27-30 July 2009.
    • Identity, Belonging and Attitudes towards Ethnic Languages among African-Australians. Presented at the Conference on Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 2-4 June 2009.

    2008

    • Australia's Language-in-Migration Policies: Another Site for Subtle Social Exclusion. Presented at English and Asia: First International Conference on Language and Linguistics, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24-27 November 2008.
    • Mimicking Invented Categories: The Limitations of Language and Nationality as Prime Markers of African Identities in Victoria. Presented in the peer-reviewed stream of the conference on Social Inclusion and Exclusion of Culturally Diverse Communities: Strategies and Experiences, University of Tasmania, Launceston Campus, 1-2 August 2008.
    • The Ethnic and Linguistic Turn in Zimbabwean Politics: 1980-2008. Presented in the peer-reviewed stream of the 31st Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), Monash University, 26-28 November 2008.

    2007

    • Nationalist Ideology and the Quest for Linguistic Homogenization in Zimbabwe. Presented at the SoLLS INTEC Conference on Language and Nationhood: Discourses Across Cultures and Disciplines, Subang Hotel and Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-17 May 2007.

    2006

    • The Role of Discourse in Identity Formation and the Manufacture of Ethnic Minorities in Zimbabwe. Presented at the 2nd Symposium on Discourse Analysis – 'Discourse: Constructing Society and Text', Organized by the Hispanic Studies Program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, 10th November 2006.
    • Everyday Forms of Language-based Marginalization: Focus on Zimbabwe. Presented at the School of Languages Postgraduate Conference, University of Melbourne, 25-26 August 2006.

    2005

    • Rethinking the Language of Politics in 21st Century Zimbabwe: A Sociolinguistic Perspective of ZANU PF Regime Security Strategies. Presented at the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) 30th Conference, University of Melbourne, 25-28 September 2005.
    • The Ndebele spelling system: a missing link between phonology and orthography. Presented at the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) Conference, Monash University City Campus, 28-30 September 2005.
    • A Critique of Zimbabwe's postcolonial ideology of language policy formulation. Presented at the Language Planning and Policy (LPP) Forum. Plaza Conference Centre, University of Melbourne, 20 October 2005.
    • Zimbabwe's Postcolonial Language Policy Formulation Paradigms – 1987 to 1998: Another Recipe for the Marginalization of Minority Languages. Presented at the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) 2005 Conference, 18-20 November 2005, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

    2004

    • Reflections on the Word Division System for the Ndebele Language. Presented at the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Harvard University, USA, 2-4 April 2004.
    • Conflicts and Dilemmas in the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Management of Southern African Cultural Heritage Properties: Another Challenge for Higher Education Researchers. Presented at the SAARDHE Annual Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Higher Education, Balmoral Hotel, Durban, South Africa, 10-12 June 2004.
    • The Dynamics of Linguistic Competences and Performances in the Midlands Speech Community. Presented at the Historical Dimensions of Development in the Midlands Province workshop. Gweru, Zimbabwe, 5-8 February 2004.