Dr. Arame Goudiaby is a tenured Research Officer at the Centre for Applied Linguistics of Dakar (CLAD), where she is responsible for partnerships, terminology, and translation. She also serves as Treasurer of both the Solis (Linguistic Society of Senegal) and the AHNAF (Association for Digital Humanities in Francophone Africa), and acts as CLAD’s focal point to the Directorate of Research and Innovation at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.

Her research focuses on language description, with a particular emphasis on Gujɐɐhɐr, a Nyun variety belonging to the Atlantic language family, as well as on language didactics. She also teaches articulatory and acoustic phonetics, along with lexicography, including the creation of databases using specialized software at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.

Ibrahima Ba, a linguist and discourse analyst, is a lecturer and researcher at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar and a lecturer at Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor. He is a member of the Laboratory of Sociolinguistics, Linguistics and Language Didactics in Africa (SOLDILAF) of the Doctoral School of Arts, Cultures and Civilisations (ARCIV) at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Magana. Since October 2023, he has been Vice-President of the African Discourse Analysis Network (R2AD).

His research areas include the description of African languages and discourse analysis from an African perspective, based on the selection of Southern corpora for research into new concepts and methods, without turning away from the North and its theoretical and practical tools. This new perspective cannot be detached from new economic, political and ecological issues, perceptible in the discourses of the dominant and the dominated. These issues encourage the development of new avenues for discursive and ecological analysis.