In a series of interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010, Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughout his life shaped his world and his relationships with his immediate and wider communities. In this reconstruction, the only extensive (auto)biographical work about Alexander in print, his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames his vividly recalled life and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid South Africa. The book also includes some of Alexander’s seminal writings on multilingualism, a rewarding yet often neglected aspect of his work.