Sara Pacchiarotti & Koen Bostoen on fieldwork and teaching mission in Kikwit (DRC)

From August 6 until August 30, 2022, Sara Pacchiarotti & Koen Bostoen are on a BantuFirst mission in the DRC. They mainly stay with Prof. Joseph Koni Muluwa (ISP Kikwit & BantUGent associate) in Kikwit where they are doing linguistic fieldwork on several West-Coastal Bantu languages, most notably Eastern and Western Ngwi (B861). They also teach classes in Methods in Linguistic Research (Sara) and Comparative Bantu Linguistics (Koen) at the MA1 students of the English and African Cultures program at the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Kikwit. In Kinshasa they work with Prof. Jean-Pierre Donzo Yugia (ISP-Gombe & BantUGent associate) on other West-Coastal Bantu languages, mainly Northern Boma (B82).

 

Sara Pacchiarotti teaching Methods in Linguistic Research at ISP-Kikwit
Home languages of students in Koen Bostoen’s Comparative Bantu class
Sara Pacchiarotti with some students of her Methods in Linguistic Research class at ISP-Kikwit
Eric Lamur, Freddy Empenge, and Alain Ntuntu (left-to-right) transcribing Ding, Ngwi and Lwer data respectively at Joseph Koni Muluwa’s house