This article focuses on students at a private secondary "franco-arabe" school in Dakar, Senegal. I draw on theories of de/coloniality, dis/citizenship, and language ideologies to examine the ways language and education policies in Senegal shape how "franco-arabe" students make sense of their places as "arabophone"…

This article examines variation in family religious language policy in a Muslim community in West Africa. Taking an ethnographically grounded case study approach, I situate families' choices with regards to their children's religious (language) education within the larger linguistic, social, and cultural context, focusing on new influences on…