Paulin Baraka Bose (°1989) is a PhD student in linguistics within the CongUbangi project. His PhD research consists of case studies of language contact and shift among Bantu, Ubangi and Central Sudanic language communities in the provinces of Nord Ubangi and Sud Ubangi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in computer networks and systems administration from Uganda’s Bugema University, in 2022, he earned a master’s degree in Culture and Environment in Africa from the University of Cologne. His master’s thesis, Gutsinda & Kwita: in-law name taboos and naming system among Banyabwisha, focused on the Bwisha group in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) bordering Rwanda and Uganda, especially their naming system and name taboos. He started his linguistic fieldwork in 2010 as an informant and has been actively involved in ethnographic research ever since due to his interest for African anthropological linguistics and pragmatics. He has written on Kivu Swahili, Youth Language Practices, and Lingala.
