Busi Makoni

Busi Makoni is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Program of African Studies. She earned her MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and her PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

• Research areas include language rights, courtroom discourse, and language policy in African contexts.
• Her work intersects applied linguistics, legal studies, and sociolinguistics.

She has published in journals such as International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Language Policy Journal, focusing on African languages, discourse analysis, and translanguaging strategies.