Research on Ndunga [ndt] presented at the 4th Congo Research Network PhD days (2026) (4 February 2026) - Chrisnah Renaudot Mfouhou gave a talk entitled Noun-phrase level tonal phenomena in Ndungalɛ ("Ubangi", Mbaic) at the 4th Congo Research Network (CRN) PhD Days held on 15–16 January 2026 in a hybrid format at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) and online. The event brought… Read more
Ever-growing ties between CURDHACA (Université de Bangui, CAR) and the CongUbangi team (2026) (4 February 2026) - From January 15 to January 31, Sara Pacchiarotti, PI of the CongUbangi project, visited the Central African Republic to meet for the first time the local authorities with whom she co-signed a university cooperation agreement and joint PhD agreement for… Read more
Linguistic fieldwork on Furu [fuu], Gezo [pae], and Ngombe [ngc] of Bosobolo in Nord Ubangi province, DRC (2025) (4 February 2026) - From 6 October to 7 December 2025, Paulin Baraka Bose conducted his second fieldwork mission in the DRC province of Nord Ubangi. Several languages were targeted in this mission. Gezo [pae]: Paulin collected data from 10 Gezo villages located in… Read more
Linguistic fieldwork on Ndunga [ndt] (Ubangi, Mbaic) in the Mongala province, DRC (2025) (4 February 2026) - From August 23 to Oct 29, 2025, as part of his ongoing typologically informed grammar of Ndungalɛ, Chrisnah Mfouhou conducted his second fieldwork mission in Lisala and its environs. During his eight‑week stay, he addressed outstanding issues from his 2024… Read more
Research on Gezo (pae) presented at the SocioBaGs workshop (2025) (3 February 2026) - During June 26-28, Paulin Baraka Bose, Koen Bostoen, Sara Pacchiarotti participated in the SocioBaGS Workshop "Macro- and micro-variation in Bantu grammatical gender systems and their sociolinguistic correlates", funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft… Read more
Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork on iron-producing communities in the Central African Republic (2025) (3 February 2026) - During the first half of 2025, Lucien Pierre Nguerede conducted several fieldwork missions to collect data on the (ethno)archaeology of iron-producing communities located to the southwest of the Central African Republic. More specifically, Lucien collected ethnographic and archaeological data in… Read more
Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork on pottery-producing communities in the Central African Republic (2025) (3 February 2026) - During the first half of 2025, Henri Zana conducted several fieldwork missions to collect data on the (ethno)archaeology of pottery-producing communities located in the southwest of the Central African Republic. More specifically, Henri Zana collected ethnographic and archaeological data in… Read more
CongUbangi team presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (2025) (7 August 2025) - Between July 22 and 25, the CongUbangi archaeology team joined over 550 other participants at the 2025 meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists in Faro, Portugal. Our team presented three papers on various aspects of our recent ethnographic and… Read more
Research on Ndunga (ndt) presented at Niger-Congo comparative workshop (2025) (26 May 2025) - On May 22, 2025, Chrisnah R. Mfouhou and Sara Pacchiarotti presented a talk titled "The noun class system of Ndunga ("Ubangi", Mbaic) from a Niger-Congo perspective" at the 2025 Comparative Niger-Congo workshop which took place at LLACAN, CNRS (Villejuif, France).… Read more
Research on Furu (fuu) presented at the Princeton Phonology Forum (2025) (26 May 2025) - On April 19, Sara Pacchiarotti and Paulin Baraka Bose presented the results of Paulin's 2024 fieldwork mission on Furu (fuu) (Central Sudanic, northwestern DRC) at the fourth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2025) (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA)… Read more