Russian State University for the Humanities The World Congress of African Linguistics 6 (WOCAL–6)

This year’s WOCAL, marking the 15th anniversary of the Congress ' first gathering in Swaziland in 1994, seems to have brought together a pretty vast collection of both scholars and topics for discussion. For five days, speakers and contributors from all over the lin-guistic world have fully occupied the Hörsaalgebaude of University of Cologne, where eight conference rooms were allocated for the non-stop chain of pres-entations in all aspects of African linguistic studies. The number of speakers has grown considerably, and it is nice to note that the share is steadily growing of those collaborators whose native language is indige-nously African. The opening keynote presentation of the first ple-nary session was made by Neville Alexander (Cap