Maurice Tadadjeu
Maurice Tadadjeu (b. 1950 in Cameroon) is a Vice-President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Central Africa.
He was a co-creator of the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages in the late 1970s.[1]
In 1996 he became Founding Director of NACALCO Center for Applied Linguistics in Yaoundé, Cameroon. From 1993 to 1997 Dr. Tadadjeu was Head of the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé. He was also was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé. [2]
Selected works
- Démocratie de Partage du Pouvoir : Pour le Modèle P3 au Cameroun [Academic Literature, ANACLAC/NACALCO, 1997]
- Confédération des Etats Unis d'Afrique [Academic Literature, Editions BUMA KOR, 1996]
- Training manual for the teaching of national languages in primary schools [Reference book, Collection PROPELCA, 1991]
- Le defi de Babel au Cameroun [Academic Literature, Collection PROPELCA, 1990] (Co-authored with Elisabeth Gfeller and Gabriel Mba)
Achievements
In 2005 Dr. Tadadjeu was awarded the Linguapax Prize. [3]
References
- ^ Tadadjeu, Maurice and Etienne Sadembouo. 1979. Alphabet Générale des Langues Camerounaises. Departement des Langues Africaines et Linguistique, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroun.
- ^ Post Newsline (Cameroon)
- ^ Linguapax website
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