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Review of A history of African linguistics. Edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 351 pp. ISBN 978-11-0828-397-7 £ 93.99

A History of African Linguistics, edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff (Professor Emeritus at Leipzig University, Chair of African Linguistics) was conceived as the companion volume of The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics (Wolff, ed. 2019). It is a historical survey of African linguistics, geographically organized: each section covers a geographical area, from Western Europe to the Americas and finally Asia and Australia, eight chapters (out of the 12 in the volume) being devoted to linguistic studies carried out in different parts of Africa.