Prof Pius Akumbu is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (January 2019-June 2021) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. During this time, he is Teaching “Linguistic Fieldwork and Descriptive Analysis of African Languages” each semester on a part-time basis. He also completed the 2015-2016 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Fulbright Research Scholar. Prof Akumbu's Research activities center around the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon. In addition, he studies multilingualism in Cameroon as well as language planning and policy in Africa. Before moving to the University of Bamenda where he Taught undergraduate and graduate courses from 2017-2018, Prof Akumbu served as Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, at the University of Buea for 9 years. During this time he was also the Director of the Centre for African Languages and Cultures at the University of Buea.
