Al-Amin Abu-Manga
Al-Amin Abu-Manga is a Sudanese linguist, whose research focuses on language contact and description of language practice among Sudanese of West African origins.
Life
Al-Amin Abu-Manga was born in Maiurno in 1951, to a Fulani family. He began his higher education at the University of Khartoum, and studied in France before finally completing a Ph.D. at the University of Marburg in Germany.He has been Head of the Department of Sudanese and African Languages, Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum since 1991.
He is Chairperson of Sudan's National Council of Cultural Heritage and Promotion of the National Languages, and former Chairman of the Council for Development and Promotion of the National Languages.