Anne Storch

The Author: William André Auquier Wilson has been interested in consonant mutation since he began his linguistic career in the RAF in 1945 by studying Japanese and Celtic languages. He embarked on research on Mande and Atlantic in Sierra Leone in 1953, conducted extensive fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau and Ghana between 1958 and 1961 and worked as a Translations Consultant in West Africa from 1966 to 1976. The author has published widely on Gur, Mande and Atlantic.
The Editor: Anne Storch is Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cologne. Her principal research has been on the Jukun languages of Nigeria, the Atlantic language family and on Western Nilotic. She is currently working on language contact and speech registers in Africa.