Dr Nicholas Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Having received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, he has taught courses and published many books and numerous articles in the areas of theoretical, descriptive, socio-, and applied linguistics. Over the past four decades, he has been conducting research on postcolonial linguistics and creole languages as well as promoting community based literacy activities in Africa, the South Pacific, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.

Anne Storch is Full Professor in Afrikanistik / African Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research focuses on linguistic manipulation and marginalized languages, linguistic typology, colonial linguistics and anthropological linguistics.

Viveka Velupillai is an Honorary Professor in the Department of English at the University of Giessen, Germany and Visiting Professor at the Language Sciences Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Her research focuses on linguistic typology, language contact and historical linguistics, Creoles and marginalized languages.