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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2009
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff122014.php

Current post

Emeritus Professor of African Language Literature, SOAS, University of London

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ayhan Kaya FBA

The state and society relations in Europe since the late-20th century; majority and minority relations in Europe; migration-refugee studies; studies on neoliberal forms of governmentality: nationalism, multiculturalism, populism, Islamophobism

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Professor Lutz Marten FBA

Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies

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Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar

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