
Pius Akumbu
Pius W. Akumbu holds a PhD in Linguistics and is a Lecturer of Phonological Theory in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, the University of Bamenda, Cameroon. His main interests lie in the documentation and description of endangered Grassfields Bantu languages, and in language policy and planning in Cameroon.
Some of his major publications include A Pedagogic Grammar of Babanki: A Grassfields Language of Northwestern Cameroon (co-author, 2012) and Language Policy in Africa: Perspectives for Cameroon (co-author, 2013).
In 2015, he joined Key Pluridisciplinary Advances on African Multilingualism – CAMeroon (KPAAM-CAM), an international research project aimed at understanding the linguistic and sociocultural dynamics of individual multilingualism in Cameroon and exploring their structure in time and space, with a special focus on more traditional rural contexts. The KPAAM-CAM research team brings together linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and geographers from a number of universities across the United States (Buffalo, SUNY), Cameroon (Yaoundé, Buea, CATUC – Bamenda) and Europe (Florence).





