Pineteh Angu

Prof Pineteh E. Angu is the director and associate professor in the Unit for Academic Literacy, University of Pretoria. He obtained his doctorate degree in 2007, for an interdisciplinary research project titled Narratives of homelessness and displacement: life testimonies of Cameroonian asylum seekers in Johannesburg.

His research interests include migrant narratives, multilingualism, academic literacies, African transnational migration, xenophobia and social exclusion as well as language and communication. He has published several academic articles in internationally accredited journals and presented papers at local and international conferences.

Before joining the University of Pretoria, Prof Angu was a permanent academic staff member at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, where he coordinated language and communication support across the Faculty of Informatics and Design. Prior to his appointment as language coordinator, he lectured Advanced Communication Skills, Language and Communication, English for Public Relations and Research Methodology.

He has successfully supervised and co-supervised master's and doctoral students. He has also externally examined more than ten MA theses and one PhD thesis for the universities of Fort Hare and the Western Cape.

At CPUT, Prof Angu served on several faculty and institutional committees including Senate Language Committee, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty Ethics Committee, and Faculty Board Executive. He also served on conference organising committees notably African Languages Association of South Africa (ALASA) and Education Association of South Africa (EASA). As the faculty language coordinator and member of the Senate Language Committee, he played a key role in implementing the university’s language policy.

Prof Angu is a member of the editorial board of Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management and African Human Mobility Review. He is also a peer reviewer for Studies in Higher Education, Computer Assisted Language Learning and Canadian Journal of African Studies.