( Lecturer & HOD for Languages)
Dr. Amidu Fatawu is the current Head of the Languages Department at Gambaga College of Education. He has been teaching in Ghana’s Colleges of Education since 2011 and currently serves as a lecturer at Gambaga College of Education in the North East Region of Ghana. His primary teaching and research interests include language documentation, phonetics and phonology, morphology, and pragmatics, with a focus on the linguistics of “Dagbani” and “Mampruli”. In 2020, he contributed to training basic school teachers on the new curriculum for English and “Dagbani”. Dr. Fatawu has actively participated in committees on language documentation, curriculum development, and translation projects.
His educational journey began in 1984 with basic and secondary education at Dindani E/A Primary, Sakogu R/C JHS, and Nalerigu Senior High School. He obtained a 3-year post-secondary certificate from Tamale College of Education in 2004. After teaching for three years at Sakogu R/C JHS, he pursued higher education at the University of Education, Winneba, earning a B.Ed. in Ghanaian Languages (Dagbani), an M.Ed. in TESL, and an M.Phil. in Applied Linguistics in 2011, 2013, and 2015 respectively. Dr. Fatawu was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Ghana, Legon, in 2023.
His research focuses on documenting indigenous languages, emphasizing grammar, sound configuration, morphology, and sociolinguistics. Dr. Fatawu has published extensively, including works on Mampruli phonology and morphology, language distribution and vitality, and morphological analysis of personal proverbial names in Mampruli.