Maurice Tadadjeu
Maurice Tadadjeu was 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.
In 1996 he became Founding Director of NACALCO Center for Applied Linguistics in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
From 1993 to 1997 Prof. Tadadjeu was Head of the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé. He was also Professor of Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé.
Prof. Tadadjeu was a founding member of the African Academy of Languages.
He died on December 30, 2012.Selected works
In 2005 Prof. Tadadjeu was awarded the Linguapax Prize.
