Ericka A. Albaugh teaches and researches on the politics of language, ethnic conflict, and political development in Africa. She has conducted field research in Cameroon, Senegal, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, and has written articles on language politics, education, and elections on the continent. Her recent book is entitled State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and she is currently researching the spread of lingua francas within and across state boundaries.

Kathryn M. de Luna is an historian of Central Africa and publishes in the fields of history, linguistics, and archaeology. Her first book, Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2016) won the Wallace Award. She is currently researching the politics of early central African pyrotechnologies and bodily senses and is beginning a project on human mobility and future and past climates in central Zambia.

Ericka A. Albaugh (Political Science, Bowdoin College)

Kathryn M. de Luna (History, Georgetown University)

Moha Ennaji (Cultural and Gender Studies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco)

David M. Gordon (History, Bowdoin College)

M. Paul Lewis (Linguistics, SIL International)

Carolyn Logan (Political Science and Afrobarometer, Michigan State University)

Scott MacEachern (Anthropology, Bowdoin College)

Fiona Mc Laughlin (Linguistics, University of Florida)

Salikoko S. Mufwene (Linguistics, University of Chicago)

Nico Nassenstein (Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Fallou Ngom (Anthropology, Boston University)

Derek Nurse (Linguistics, Memorial University, retired)

Kenneth S. Olson (Linguistics, SIL International)

Derek R. Peterson (History and African Studies, University of Michigan)

Philip W. Rudd (English and Modern Languages, Pittsburg State University)

Robert W. Slenes (History, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)

Hanétha Vété-Congolo(Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College)

Maureen Warner-Lewis (Literature, University of the West Indies)

"In a nutshell, the authors have successfully achieved their goals by providing the readers with a synthesis and analysis of Aftrican languages and their movements. Postgraduates and academics who have an interest in language change and variation should find fresh perspectives and information in this collection." -- Yingzhu Chen and Ming Yue, Zhejiang University, Journal of Language and Politics

"Tracing Language Movement in Africa exposes some of the pitfalls and possibilities of language-based research, sparking important debates for which future work must be held accountable." -- Raevin Jimenez, Journal of Interdisciplinary History