Certainly "culturally conservative" though: board member of the far-right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (shareholders: Legatum and Paul Marshall.)

Berber aṃucc "cat": any connection to Hausa mussa "cat"? (Given that a lot of "cat" words seem to be kinda phonaesthetic anyway, I suppose the resemblance could easily be accidental.)

I saw some correspondence on their misclassification of Nabit as a Farefare dialect, from one of the few linguists with an informed opinion on the matter; his proposal was rejected, relying instead on an MA thesis (on Nabit orthography) by an author with no knowlege of the relevant languages at all.

On the plus side, when I last had access to look at the specialised area I know most about (Western Oti-Volta) much of the information was significantly wrong anyway.

To be fair, some tomatoes _are_ pretty disturbing. (No? Just me, then ...)

Exactly!

You're right! They don't!

Kusaal biig "child" has the same root as Swahili mzee "old man." (However, this one goes *by > z, which is a positively _normal_ development in comparison ...)

I think there's mileage in the Etruscans. For too long, Africocentrists have been fixated on the boring old Egyptians. It's time to claim *Etruria* for Africa!

The idea seems to be that in situations of prolonged contact with much competent stable bilingualism, borrowing only affects lexicon, not language structure. I think there are some good counterexamples to that in West Africa.