Prof. Georges Kamba Muzenga (1942-2022) passed away on August 5, 2022, in Brussels at the age of 80. The field of Bantu Studies loses a great historical-comparative linguist. After having graduated in classical philology at the Catholic University of Louvain, Georges Kamba Muzenga obtained a PhD in African linguistics at the University of Brussels (ULB) in 1978. He was a professor at the Institut Supérieur de Lubumbashi, where he served for a while as General Academic Secretary. He also taught at Lubumbashi University (UNILU). Apart from numerous articles on different topics in Bantu historical-comparative linguistics, he wrote several books such as Esquisse de grammaire kete (1980), Les formes verbales négatives dans les langues bantoues (1981), Substitutifs et possessifs en bantou (2003). In 2018 he participated in the International Conference on Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar at Ghent University. His talk on Proto-Bantu substitutives and possessives can be relistened here. BantUGent expresses heartfelt condolences to Prof. Kamba Muzenga’s family on their loss.
