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  • 2020. Women-Researchers’ Challenges: the case of the ‘Cameroon Professional

                      Research Oriented Women. In Chibaka, E.F., L. L. Atanga & E.A. Samba

                      Cameroon Professional Women in Sciences: A Trans-disciplinary Review, Series

                     1. 2020. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Pp 169-190.

  • Language Technology Applications in Africa within an “Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective” Crisis Interface.

Paper presented at the International Conference on Language    Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 4 - 6 December 2019.

  • Contemporary Challenges in Mother Tongue-Bible Translation in Cameroon an Africa. Paper presented at the Faith Lutheran Baptist Colloquium, Grande Prairie, Canada, 17th November 2019.

  • “Digital Humanities, the African Perspective? Insight from Language Documentation” Lecture presented the 10th European Summer University on Digital Humanities -Culture & Technology, at the University of Leipzig,  Germany. July 23rd – August 02nd 2019.

  • “Responsibilities of the Digital Humanities” Panel discussion at the 10th European Summer University, on Digital Humanities-Culture & Technology, at the University of Leipzig, Germany. July 23rd – August 02nd 2019.

  • “Gender Mindset Change for Sustainable Development: The case of the “Cameroon  Professional Research-Oriented Women” Paper presented at the 1st International    CaPROWN-Humboldt Kolleg 2019, Yaounde, Cameroon. January 23-25, 2019.

  • "Preservation and revitalization challenges in Bezen, a rural-multilingual community in Cameroon” Paper presented at World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL9). Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. August 22–26, 2018.

  •  "A Polylectal Grammar for Nkun (Mankon varieties) in Mezam, Cameroon"   (Forthcoming in) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

  •  „An Anthropolinguistics exploration of culture at a crossroad: A study of the Bezens of    North West Region of Cameroon“ (Forthcoming in) Bamenda: Langaa RPCID

  •   2018. Advantages of Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Multi-dimensional Research  Findings. In Chumbow B. S.(ed.). Bilingualism and Multilingualism. INTECH               Publications, Rijeka. Pp 15-36

  • The place of ICT in Mother Tongue Education (MTE) for a ‘rural-urban’ setting: The   case of Mankon/Nkun, Cameroon“ Paper presented in 30th West African Languages Congress (WALC) & 10th Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) Conference, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, July 31-August 5, 2017

  • 2017. African language and culture realization in the policy, planning and developmental tier in some African states: the African Union perspectives.  Shigeki K. (ed.). Proceedings of the 8th world congress of African Linguistics,  Kyoto, 2015. Kyoto: ILCAA. Pp 373 -398

  •  “Sustainable development through indigenous knowledge of ethnoecological resources in the Bezen community” Paper presented at Humboldt Kolleg Cameroon (HAC), University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon, March 8-11, 2017.

  • 2016. Proceedings of the 7th world congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012. Bamenda: Langaa RPCID. Vol. 1 & 2. [Co-authored with Atindogbe, G. Gratien]

  • 2016. Issues in the analysis of verbs serialization in Metaʔ. In Atindogbe, G. G. & E. F.  Chibaka (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th world congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012. Bamenda: Langaa RPCID. Vol. 2. Pp 837-882

  • “African language and culture realization in the policy, planning and developmental tier in some African states: the African Union perspectives” Paper presented at World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL8). The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan’, August 20th – 24th, 2015.

  • Babanki verb tone. Paper presented at the 1st International Humboldt Colloquium on challenges and new prospects on prosody and its implications for the orthography of African languages. Université Felix Houphouét-Boigny/Goethe-Institute, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 5th-8th May 2014.

  • 2014.  Akum, Alaʔatening and Mankon: Dialects or Languages?A Scientific Contribution to the Language-dialect Problematic. 2014. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe  Verlag. 326 pp

  • Language policy and planning from the perspective of the African Union in some African states. Paper presented at the 10th International Language & Development Conference. Lagoon Beach Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa, 14th-17th October 2013.

  • 2013. The syntactic distribution of negative morphemes in MetaɁ. Epasa Moto.  Kansas City: Miraclaire Academic Publications (MAP). Vol. 1(1): Pp 53-78.

  • 2012a. Pronouns in Cameroon Pidgin English. In Eric A. Anchimbe (Ed.), Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting: the linguistic and social context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Pp. 215-244. [Co-  authored with Atindogbe, G. Gratien]

  • 2012b. 'Productive and Non-Productive Reduplication Patterns in Bantu Zone A (Northwest) Languages'. In Pius N. Tamanji and Gabriel M. Mba (eds.) Aspects of Reduplication in Languages of Cameroon and Senegal. Munich: Lincom Studies in Language Typology 23. [Co-authored with Atindogbe, G. Gratien]

  • Challenges in the Documentation of Bezen, Cameroon. Paper presented at an ELDP Workshop on ‘Methodology of language-culture documentation and how to develop research projects’. University of Buea, Cameroon, October 30th –November 1st, 2012.

  • Issues in the analysis of verbs serialization in Metaʔ. Paper presented at World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7). University of Buea, Cameroon, August 20th – 24th, 2012

  • Unreleased final Consonants in Bezen. Paper presented at the DOBES – Endangered Language Documentation Advanced training course & workshop. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland, July 2nd – 6th 2012.

  • 2012c. A Pedagogic Grammar of Babanki – a Grassfields Language of Northwes Cameroon. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 209 pp. [Co-authored with Pius, W.    Akumbu]

  • 2011.  Pronoun Serialisation in Kamtok: The Syntax-Semantic Interface. In A. Storch et al. (eds.), Copy Pronouns: Case studies from African Languages.  Cologne: Köppe. Pp. 193-212. [Co-authored with Atindogbe, G. Gratien]

  • 2010.  The ‘Invisible’ Perception Verbs Comparison in Mankon and Metaʔ Succession-Induction Traditional Rites. In: Anne Storch (ed.). Perception of the Invisible Religion, Historical Semantics and the Role of Perceptive Verbs. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 21: 293-311.

  • Mother tongue Education for a ‘Rural-urban setting’: the case of Mankon. Paper presented at B. S. Chumbow International Symposium “Languages of Education in Africa: Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives”. University of Yaounde 1, April 7th – 10th 2010.

  • Professional Opportunities with a linguistics Degree: The African Situation. Paper presented at the DAAD-Alumni Workshop “Career Opportunities in Education, Culture and Media: Alumni Employability and German-African Academic Networks”. The University of Buea,  November 30th to December 4th, 2009.

  • Dialect Conflict Resolution and Choice of Standard Variety for Mankon Dialect Cluster. Paper presented at World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL6). Cologne, Germany, August 13th - 21st, 2009.

  • The role of ‘ceÝrɛ@’ and ‘kw®@’ in MetaɁ Verb Phrase: An Adverb or Aspect Marker? Paper presented at the ‘BANTU3- 3rd International Conference on Bantu Languages. Tervuren, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, March 25th -27th 2009. 

  • Language Shift Arrest: The Case of Mankon in a Multilingual Setting. Paper presented at 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) ‘Supporting small languages together’ Honolulu, University of Hawai’i, USA, March 11th-17th 2009

  • 2009b.  Reduplication in Gunu: Segmental and prosodic Description. In V. A. Tanda, et al. (eds.), Language, Literature and Social Discourse in Africa. Bamenda, AGWECAMS Publishers. Pp. 136-182. [Co-authored with Atindogbe, G. Gratien]

A Grammatical Description of Meta? in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation
A Grammatical Description of Meta? in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation: Evident in Focalisation and      Wh- fronted Question.
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 203 pp.

A Grammatical Description of Meta? in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation

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