Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka

Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka was born in Mbatu-Mezam, Cameroon. She did her PhD in generative Syntax at the University of Hamburg, Germany under the sponsorship of DAAD (2001). Evelyn is currently a Full-time Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Buea, Cameroon. In her area of research interest, she has published widely in national and international journals, book chapters and books in the domains of Syntax, Applied Linguistics - documentary Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and currently in Digital Humanities her new found research interest specialty. As primary investigator in many endangered language documentation projects (progressively and simultaneously sponsored by ‘Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Stiftung Foundation’, ‘Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation (DoBeS Program)’, ‘International Centre for Research and Documentation on African Tradition and Languages (CERDOTOLA)’, University of Buea research grant and The German Embassy, Yaounde, Cameroon) specifically in the NW Region of Cameroon, she has been extensively exposed to some language, traditional artifacts and cultural corpora / data collection, management and archiving digital tools and techniques.