

The ANR-DFG SocioBaGs project investigates variation and change in the nominal classification systems of the Bantu languages. During a three-day workshop (June 26-28, 2026) at the Laboratoire Parole et langage (CNRS) of the University of Aix-Marseille, members of the SocioBaGS scientific committee as well as researchers from outside the project core team gathered to exchange ideas and findings on the latest research about the typology of Bantu and non-Bantu nominal classification systems and the population history and contact dynamics of sub-Saharan Africa.
BantUGent was well represented with team members being involved in four different talks.
The workshop’s entire program is available here.
Hilde Gunnink (BantUGent – ULeiden) featured in the VRT CANVAS TV show “Campus Cup” as a visiting professor holding a short “African Studies” exam. Watch it here from minute 28 onwards.
On Friday May 23, 2025, the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association invited several professors and students working at UGent to meet three Congolese personalities:
UGent research group presentations were given by
The meet-and-greet ended with an interesting discussion and an exchange of ideas and presents.
The talk ‘Broken in Uganda’, which Gilles-Maurice de Schryver presented on August 15, 2023, at the ‘Third Biannual Conference of the Language Association of Eastern Africa’ in Kampala, is now available on YouTube. In this talk focusing on the Ugandan language Lusoga, he criticizes Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), an institution under the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoE&S) responsible for the development of educational curricula for Pre-primary, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary institutions in Uganda, for not taking indigenous Bantu languages seriously enough.