Augustine Agwuele is Professor of Linguistics. He integrates the conceptual rigors of theoretical linguistics with ethnographically grounded scholarship in socio-cultural anthropology, language and culture, and studies of peoples and cultures of Africa in order to address common and habitual practices involved in encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages. Adams Bodomo is Professor of African Studies (holding the Chair of African Languages and Literatures) at the University of Vienna. He specializes in formal theoretical linguistics, Afriphone literature, cross-cultural communication, digital humanities (languages and literatures in new media), computer-mediated communication for linguistics and literacy; and diaspora and international studies involving Africa, Asia, and Europe.