Samuel Obeng (linguist)
Samuel Gyasi Obeng is a Ghanaian-American linguist. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and the Director of the West African Languages Institute (WALI) at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). He is affiliated with IUB’s Linguistics Department, African Studies Program (Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies) and holds Adjunct Professorship positions in the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Islamic Studies
Obeng has written extensively (35 books and 135 refereed articles) about language and liberty, African communicational mores, especially, verbal indirection, political, juridical, religious, health and informal discourses, African onomasiology and African languages documentation. Obeng has appeared on radio (Public Radio International, WFHB, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, etc. ), television (GTV, etc.)