Daniel A. Nkemleke is professor of English language and linguistics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Yaoundé 1, an Alexander von Humboldt (2007-2008, 2011, 2013, 2016) and Fulbright (2010-2011) scholar, as well as an Award Winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Alumni Prize for Innovative Research Networks Initiative for 2014—a prestigious international award that has been honored by the German president and president of the Humboldt Foundation. He has more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, and currently editor-in-Chief of Review Syllabus—an interdisciplinary journal of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Yaoundé I.

 Professor Nkemleke runs an African-German Network Centre for Academic Writing Excellence (AfriG-CAWE) that provides a platform for mentoring junior scientists in view of preparing them for successful Humboldt applications. AfriG-CAWE brings together scholars and junior scientists in the humanities from five African countries (Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya) and Germany. In 2015, he organized an international symposium in Yaoundé under the theme: “Academic Writing across Disciplines in Africa: socializing junior scientists in the discourses of research, and maximizing their changes for successful Humboldt Applications”. Selected papers from this symposium appear in a new book: Academic Writing across Disciplines in Africa: From Students to Experts (2016), which he has edited with Josef Schmied. His research interest includes general linguistics, ELT and academic writing from a corpus-based perspective. During the last five years, he has been investigating academic writing practices in Cameroon English from a corpus linguistic perspective, and his book Exploring Academic Writing in Cameroon English (2011) is the outcome of this initiative.