Shifting Sociolinguistic Terrains in Postcolonial Anglophone African Literary Writings

Esther Mavengano is a lecturer who teaches Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Literary studies obtained from North West University in South Africa. She is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, College of Human Sciences, UNISA, South Africa and she is currently a Georg Forster/ Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TU (Technische Universität Dresden) in the Department of English, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, Dresden, Germany.

Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.