Other Activities

2024

The Making of An African Academic.
Speech to the East African Community Group in Vienna, Austria, November 4, 2024.

Personhood in Confucian and African Philosophy: Some Common Values of Humanity.
7th Congress of the International Confucian Association (ICA), October 20, 2024.

Workshop on West African Languages.
29th Lexical Functional Grammar Annual Conference, Accra, Ghana, August 23, 2024.

Where is African Agency in the African Diaspora Food Systems?
Keynote Speech at Exploring Intersections: Decolonization, Diasporas, and the African Food System, Brüssels, Belgium, July 2024.

Humanities in One Health Network: Linguistic and Cultural Notions for Promoting Biodiversity in Africa.
Humanities in One Health Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 21, 2024

COVID-19 Significantly Impacts Vulnerable Populations: How Africans in China Cope During Infectious Disease Outbreaks.
Humanities in One Health Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2024.

Africa-China-Europe Relations: What is in it for West Asia?
Lecture at the New York University Abu Dhabi, March 4, 2024.

2023

Europhone or Afriphone? Language choices in African literature.
Lecture at the philosophy dpt. of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 1, 2023.

Health Humanities: From hepatocentrism to cardiocentrism and beyond in some Ghanaian language expressions of health and well-being.
4th ISoGH’s Conference on Global Health: Improving representation, fairness and equity in global health research, November 11, 2023.

The Making of An African Academic.
Keynote Speech to the East African Community Group in Vienna, Austria, November 4, 2023.

The History of Linguistic Studies in West Africa: Fireside Testimonies.
West African Linguistic Society WALS, Nigeria, October 2023.

Strategies for the Promotion of Mother Tongues for National Development.
Talk at the University of Ghana, Ghana, February 21, 2023.

Renewable Energy Financing Blues in Africa: African Diaspora Remittances to the Rescue?
Talk at the Nigerians in Diaspora Organization Europe / NIDOE-Austria, February 10, 2023.

Linguistic human rights for the promotion of democracy in West Africa.
Conference: Reinvigorating the United Nations, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, January 28, 2023.

The History of Linguistic Studies in West Africa: Focus on the West African Linguistic Society.
Talk at the University of Ghana, Ghana, January 19, 2023.

2022

Language, Literature and Insecurity: Issues in Linguistic Pan-Africanism.
Keynote Speech at the Conference on: Language, Literature and Insecurity in West Africa. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigera, March 24, 2022.

Linguistic Pan-Africanism as a Global Future: Reflection on the Language Question in Africa. Inaugural Lecture, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS). Accra, Ghana, February 10, 2022.

2021

The Belt and Road Initiative in an Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
OBOR Conference, Xi’an University, China (online), October 27

Strategies for the Promotion of the Dagaare Language.
Daagare Language and Culture Development Conference, Ghana, September 17 – 18

Humanities and the Fight Against Corruption in West Africa: The Role of Linguistic and Literary Scholars. Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria, August 24

Put Weight on Top: The Language and Literature of Corruption in West Africa. 32nd West African Languages Conference, Nigeria, August 15 – 21

2019

Anti-Sinicism in the 21st Century
Tsinghua University, Beijing (China), December 3.

The African Diaspora in China
November 5.

Understanding the African diaspora in China
November 4.

Peaceful change in Africa
Diplomatic Academy, Vienna (Austria), October 22.

Verb-object compounds and idioms in Chinese
October 19-20.

Computer-mediated communication for linguistics and literacy in the 21st century: Is technology changing the way we read and write?
October 17.

Confucianism in an Era of Rising Anti-sinicism: A Case Study within Africa – China Relations
October 14-16.

Africa – Asia – Europe Economic Relations: Dependency or Partnership?
Plattsburgh State University of New York, August 29 to September 2.

Harmonization of orthographies for Mabia and other West African languages
August 11-15.

Serial verb reduplication in the Mabia languages
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

2018

Ghana and its Contemporary Global Relations
Harwell Campus, University of Manchester (UK), October 25.

Keynote speech at CFP: Global Encounters: Transnational Mobility within and beyond China
Minzu University of China, Beijing (China), June 23-24

Transformation and Resilience within African communities in China
University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), February 28.

Transformation and Resilience within African communities in Guangzhou, China
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York (USA), February 8.

2021

28th FILLM Congress (Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes)

2018

23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference