We made it!

The Symposium on West African Languages 2014 is over. Rain is over, too. Pizzas have been digested and our shoes are dry. Everything went fine. I’m quite satisfied.

• papers were great, but the participants were even better;
• we got our energy supply from extremely concentrated coffee shots (a bottle of milk showed up only in the last coffee break);
• the weather was horrible (it made us stronger … and yes, it kept the attendants within the premises of the conference);
• a conference on African linguistics with scholars from… Africa! Well, one couldn’t ask for more.

Some pics:

Rudolf Leger and Hafizu Miko Yakasai

Comfort Ojongnkpot and Henry Tourneux

Raymond Siebetcheu and Sergio Baldi

Sergio Baldi and Henry Tourneux

Norbert Cyffer, Georg Ziegelmeyer and John Keegan

Rudolf Leger

John Keegan and Anne Storch

Audience

Alessandro Suzzi Valli

GC Batic and H Jungraithmayr

Mahmoud Adam and Rudolf Leger

Mahmoud Adam and Rudolf Leger

Viktoria Kempf and Anne Storch

End of a long a day

John Keegan

GC Batic

SyWAL audience

Yakubu Azare

Maria Mazzoli and Herrmann Jungraithmayr

Yakubu Azare and Rudolf Leger

Herrmann Jungraithmayr