Picture: Placing of the fish trap with spring Lisombo (Mbole Yaima), village of Yamboka, Opala territory, Tshopo, RDC. Photo: Victor Yaaya, June 2023. The impressive
From March 2021 to December 2022, David Kopa wa Kopa of the BANTURIVERS team and Nicolas Mombaya Liwila, Emmanuel Ngbanga Bandombele, and François Abuka Balabala
When a pandemic puts fieldwork to an end and demands repatriation.
First linguistic fieldwork, in the region south of Kisangani, for David’s doctoral research.
First official visit to the University of Kisangani and some teambuilding during fieldwork
Every two years, during one week, all that matters is historical linguistics. At this year’s ICHL, discussions revolved around agricultural driven dispersals, multidisciplinary challenges, sound changes, but also the ethics of research on indigenous languages.
At a crossroads of Bantu expansions
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