The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) have appointed a new Senior Researcher, Dr Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza.

Dr Ndinga-Koumba-Binza is an erstwhile Senior Lecturer in the University of the Western Cape's Department of Language Education (Faculty of Arts and Humanities). 

In his UWC biography, Dr Ndinga-Koumba-Binza describes himself thus: "I always introduce myself as a linguist and phonetician by training, a lexicographer by accident, a historian by necessity and an educationist by virtue of duty.

"I do research and supervise postgraduate students in these domains of linguistics, phonetics, lexicography, history and education on topics that have to do with African languages & culture, English, Afrikaans or French."

Dr Ndinga-Koumba-Binza joined UWC from the Centre for Text Technology (CTexT) at North-West University's Potchefstroom campus. Since then, he has been in charge of teaching educational linguistics modules at undergraduate level and the module of sociolinguistics in education at postgraduate level. Apart from lecturing, he also served as the postgraduate studies coordinator in the Language Education Department.

For more about Dr Ndinga-Koumba-Binza's research output, including books, articles in peer-reviewed journals, theses and research Reports, read his full biography here.