Moufoutaou ADJERAN

Moufoutaou Adjeran is a Member of LocalLing project, Professor of Sociolinguistics and Ethnolinguistics, and a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin). His specialities are language and cultural contact, norms and variations in Africa, language policies and rights, language teaching in a multilingual context,  automatic processing of African languages, and Yorùbá language and literature. His recent publications include:

• ADJERAN M. (2026), Traitement automatique des langues (TAL) et les grands domaines d’application : quels défis pour les linguistes et les informaticiens africains ? in Vincent Atabavikpo et Moufoutaou Adjeran (éds.), Lettres, langues et sciences de l’information et de la communication face aux enjeux du numérique, Abomey-Calavi : Sodylary, pp. 26-53 (ISBN : 978-99982-3-435-2)
• ADJERAN M. et BOUTIN B. A. (2025), « Les langues gbè dans les premiers écrits européens : nécessité d’une reconstitution de corpus », Sciences & Techniques du Langage, 21, pp.170-193.
• ADJERAN M. (2024), Romance Languages in Benin : French, in Ursula Reutner (éd.), Manual of Romance Languages in Africa, Berlin : De Gruyter, pp. 165-188 (ISBN : 978-3-11-062610-0)

Aimé Dafon SEGLA

Dafon Aimé SEGLA, Member of LocalLing project, holds a PhD from Université Paris7-CNRS in Logic, Epistemology and History of Science and Technology. Later, he joined the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin and the Martin-Luther University. In Benin, he is a Senior Lecturer of Logic, Epistemology and African System of Knowledge. 

His interests include empirical research on African cultural traces of science and technology, concepts and logic in language and cognition: mathematics, biology, medicine, appropriate technologies, African languages and digital resources potentialities. 

He has published articles in Springer, Sage, Cahier d’Etudes Africaines, University of California Press, Max-Planck Report Series, etc. And, is author of books and chapters of books: Springer 2008, University of Nigeria-Nsuka Press 2011, ASP-University of Chicago Press 2015, Springer 2015, African Mind 2023, University of Lagos Press 2023, and Cambridge University Press 2026. Dafon Aimé SEGLA is a Member of the Commission on the History of Mathematics of the African Mathematical Union (AMU-CHMA).