Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).

• General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Spread of English Overseas: 1. Transported English in the colonial period Raymond Hickey; 2. Modelling the formation and developmental trajectories of varieties of English Edgar W. Schneider; 3. Towards a history of world Englishes Rajend Mesthrie; 4. English as a second and foreign language Andy Kirkpatrick; 5. Pidgins and creoles in the history of English John McWhorter; Part II. Africa: II.I West Africa: 6. English and Krio in Sierra Leone Kofi Yakpo, Malcolm Finney and Saidu Bangura; 7. English in Liberia John Singler; 8. English in Ghana Thorsten Brato; 9. English in Nigeria Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah; 10. English in Cameroon Hans–Georg Wolf and Eric Anchimbe; II.II East Africa: 11. English in Kenya and Tanzania Josef Schmied; 12. English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Anne Marie Kagwesage; II.III Southern Africa: 13. The anglophone settlement of South Africa Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz; 14. English of the Black population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie and Bertus Van Rooy; 15. English of Afrikaans speakers Bertus Van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman; 16. English of the Indian population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie; 17. English in Namibia Sarah Buschfeld; 18. English in Zimbabwe Susan Fitzmaurice; Part III. The South Atlantic: 19. South Atlantic English Daniel Schreier; 20. The English of the Falkland Islands David Britain, Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury; Index.

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).

• General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Spread of English Overseas: 1. Transported English in the colonial period Raymond Hickey; 2. Modelling the formation and developmental trajectories of varieties of English Edgar W. Schneider; 3. Towards a history of world Englishes Rajend Mesthrie; 4. English as a second and foreign language Andy Kirkpatrick; 5. Pidgins and creoles in the history of English John McWhorter; Part II. Africa: II.I West Africa: 6. English and Krio in Sierra Leone Kofi Yakpo, Malcolm Finney and Saidu Bangura; 7. English in Liberia John Singler; 8. English in Ghana Thorsten Brato; 9. English in Nigeria Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah; 10. English in Cameroon Hans–Georg Wolf and Eric Anchimbe; II.II East Africa: 11. English in Kenya and Tanzania Josef Schmied; 12. English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Anne Marie Kagwesage; II.III Southern Africa: 13. The anglophone settlement of South Africa Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz; 14. English of the Black population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie and Bertus Van Rooy; 15. English of Afrikaans speakers Bertus Van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman; 16. English of the Indian population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie; 17. English in Namibia Sarah Buschfeld; 18. English in Zimbabwe Susan Fitzmaurice; Part III. The South Atlantic: 19. South Atlantic English Daniel Schreier; 20. The English of the Falkland Islands David Britain, Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury; Index.

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).

• General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Spread of English Overseas: 1. Transported English in the colonial period Raymond Hickey; 2. Modelling the formation and developmental trajectories of varieties of English Edgar W. Schneider; 3. Towards a history of world Englishes Rajend Mesthrie; 4. English as a second and foreign language Andy Kirkpatrick; 5. Pidgins and creoles in the history of English John McWhorter; Part II. Africa: II.I West Africa: 6. English and Krio in Sierra Leone Kofi Yakpo, Malcolm Finney and Saidu Bangura; 7. English in Liberia John Singler; 8. English in Ghana Thorsten Brato; 9. English in Nigeria Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah; 10. English in Cameroon Hans–Georg Wolf and Eric Anchimbe; II.II East Africa: 11. English in Kenya and Tanzania Josef Schmied; 12. English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Anne Marie Kagwesage; II.III Southern Africa: 13. The anglophone settlement of South Africa Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz; 14. English of the Black population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie and Bertus Van Rooy; 15. English of Afrikaans speakers Bertus Van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman; 16. English of the Indian population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie; 17. English in Namibia Sarah Buschfeld; 18. English in Zimbabwe Susan Fitzmaurice; Part III. The South Atlantic: 19. South Atlantic English Daniel Schreier; 20. The English of the Falkland Islands David Britain, Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury; Index.