A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Dagaare

Mark Ali, now retired, was a Lecturer in the Dagaare language at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana for 24 years. He is a native of Kaane, a village in Lambussie/Kaane District in the Upper West Region of Ghana, and a member of the Koware clan. He is also the author of 6 books in Dagaare concerning literature, culture and oral literature.

Scott Grimm is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester, where he is also the director of the Quantitative Semantics Lab.

Adams Bodomo is a Ghanaian academic, a Universitätsprofessor (‘University Professor’) of African Studies (holding the Chair of African Languages and Literatures) at the University of Vienna, Austria – the first Black academic to occupy this top position in an Austrian university.

He has done pioneering research in many disciplines including African linguistics, Afriphone literature, diaspora studies with a particular focus on diaspora community contributions to the socio-economic development of countries of origin, Africa–China–Europe relations, and interdisciplinary studies across many humanities and social science disciplines.