School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong

2011 - 2012

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Teaching Staff

Adams Bodomo (Associate Professor of Linguistics and African Studies) specializes in Theoretical Linguistics, Computer-mediated communication and Africa-China relations. In the African Studies Programme he teaches courses on Foundations in African Studies, African linguistics, Africa-China Relations, and Globalization: African Experiences. His current research projects include: Africa-China Relations: from cross-cultural communication to comparative linguistics, and the Globalization of Foreign Investment in Africa: Socio-cultural implications. He does research and supervises masters and doctoral theses on comparative African and Chinese/Asian studies.

Beyond linguistics, he likes hiking, distance running (10K - marathon), watching soccer, and wine-tasting. He also finds time to write and recite poetry, and participates in lively debates of African and world affairs.
(Email: abbodomo@hku.hk)

Manolete Mora (Honorary Associate Professor) received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Monash University (Melbourne) in 1990 and was Andrew Mellon Research Fellow at the Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania 1993-1994. He was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in 2006 and appointed as Universitas 21 Fellow in 2007. He teaches courses and supervises theses on a range of subjects, including, African music, Balinese gamelan, music in Hong Kong, popular music, world music, and ethnomusicology, more generally. His principal research interests are the music of the Philippines, including popular music and musical ethnography.

His research interests also include the music of Bali, Cuba, and Ghana. He has published widely in musicological and anthropological journals and he has produced ethnographic CDs for Rykodisc and UNESCO. His book on myth, magic, and mimesis in the music of a Filipino hill-tribe, published in 2005 by Ateneo de Manila University Press, won the National Book Award for Folklore and was runner up in the Gintong Aklat Award for Social Science in the Philippines. Mora is also an active musician, mainly in the performance of Balinese gamelan and Cuban music.
(Email: m.mora@unsw.edu.au )

 

Mary Bodomo (Part-time Teaching Consultant) specializes in African literatures as well as Twi, an Akan language primarily spoken in Ghana. She is teaching AFRI2003 Proficiency Course in an African Language (Stream B: Twi) and AFRI2007 African Nobel Laureates in Literature in 2011-2012.   
(Email: mbodomo@hotmail.com )

 

Sam Mchombo (Visiting Professor) is Associate Professor in Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on the morphological and syntactic structure of Bantu languages of Africa and the relevance of that to the formalization of grammatical theory. He is teaching AFRI2003 (Proficiency Course in an African Language (Stream A: Swahili) and AFRI2004 Introduction to African Linguistics in 2011-2012.
(Email: mchombo@berkeley.edu)
 

 

Yuky Liu (Teaching Assistant) received a BEd in English Language Education from the University of Hong Kong. She has a strong passion towards African culture as well as the continent’s relationship with other countries. In 2010, she went on a fieldtrip to Ghana and carried out a small-scale research on the living conditions of Chinese in Ghana. She also participated in several field surveys of Africans in China. She will be tutoring courses for African Studies Programme in 2011-2012.
(Email: liuyuky@hku.hk )
 

Updated: 23/02/2012