Decolonising Multilingualism Av Alison Phipps

<p>What if my own multilingualism is simply that of one who is fluent in way too many colonial languages?</p><p><em>If we are going to do this, if we are going to decolonise multilingualism, let’s do it as an attempt at a way of doing it. </em></p><p><em>If we are going to do this, let’s cite with an eye to decolonising. </em></p><p><em>If we are going to do this then let’s improvise and devise. This is how we might learn the arts of decolonising.</em></p><p><em>If we are going to do this then we need different companions.</em></p><p><em>If we are going to do this we will need artists and poetic activists.</em></p><p><em>If we are going to do this, let’s do it in a way which is as local as it is global; which affirms the granulations of the way peoples name their worlds.</em></p><p><em>Finally, if we are going to do this, let’s do it multilingually.</em></p>