Felix Ameka

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Felix Ameka is a professor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Vitality at Leiden University, and linguist working on the intersection of grammar, meaning and culture. He specializes in West-African languages, and he has worked all across the continent. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Ghana, Legon and a PhD from the Australian National University. He has been a long-term research associate of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and the editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. Since 2015, he is President of the World Congress of African Linguistics.