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  • Africa Food Security and the WTO

    by Onsando Osiemo The food security dilemma Africa’s food security is ever worsening. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization […]

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Digital Humanities research in Africa

by Emmanuel Ngué Um The main challenge facing Digital Humanities research in Africa is the race to catch up with a global trend, where digitization is increasingly present at the intersection of knowledge and society. This race is taking place…

Why should we care about endangered languages?

In this extract from the introduction of his new book Linguist on the Loose, Lyle Campbell explores why and how linguists work with endangered languages. by Lyle Campbell In my mind I have always been a country boy; I grew…

A Life in Textbooks

by Laurie Bauer An Introduction to English Lexicology is my fifth textbook published with Edinburgh University Press. The first was Introducing Linguistic Morphology (1988, 2nd edition 2003) and was based on my teaching material from Victoria University of Wellington. At…