All Publications

Akanlig-Pare G., & Edward, M. (2025). Cultural stigmatization and linguistic prejudice in Deaf   Education in Ghana. In Setter, Jane, Sender Dovchin, and Vijay A. Ramjattan (eds), Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, 99-115. Oxford University Press.

Asonye, E. & Edward, M. (2024). Studies in Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages of Africa. Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

Edward, M. (2024). Signing out: Linguistic contact and possible endangerment of the Adamorobe Sign Language. In Asonye, E. & Edward, M (eds.). Studies in Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages of Africa, 79-100. Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

Edward, M. (2024). Iconicity in lexical and grammatical categories in Adamorobe Sign Languages. In Asonye, E. & Edward, M. (eds.). Studies in Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages of Africa, 42-78. Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

Edward, M., Nyarko, M.S. & Akrasi Sarpong, E. (2023). Access to sign language interpretation during COVID-19. In Henaku, N., Agbozo, G.E., & Nartey, M. (Eds.). Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the Intersection of Culture, Science, Religion and Politics (1st ed.), 144-159. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003330042

Edward, M (2023). Multilingualism in Adamorobe and the Case for Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL). In Julia Gspandl, Christina Korb, Angelika Heiling and Elizabeth J. Erling, The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies. Multilingual Matters.

Edward, M. (2022). Child language acquisition research on indigenous African sign languages: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42(6), 756–759. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221104049

Edward, M. (2022). Challenges and opportunities of teaching in multilingual Deaf Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Erasmos Charamba ed. Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts, 225-244. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5034-5.ch013 

Asonye, E. & Edward., M (2022). Deaf education and signed language situation in Ghana and Nigeria: Six decades after Andrew Foster. Yaw Nyadu Offei and Elisa M. Maroney, eds. Signed Languages, Interpreting, and the Deaf Community in Ghana and West Africa, 27-57. Oregon: Open Oregon Educational Resources.

Edward, M. & Akanlig-Pare, G. (2022). Education and Language: A case study of deaf persons in Adamorobe. In Yaw Nyadu Offei and Elisa M. Maroney, eds. Signed languages, Interpreting, and the Deaf Community in Ghana and West Africa, 58-84 Oregon: Open Oregon Educational Resources.

Edward, M. & Akanlig-Pare, G. (2021). Sign language research in Ghana: An overview of Indigenous and foreign-based sign languages. Journal of African Languages and Literatures, Vol. 2. 114-137. https://doi.org/10.6092/jalalit.v2i2.8039

Edward, M. (2021). African sign languages are not American product: Indigenous African Deaf People and indigenous African Sign Languages. Academia Letters, Article 426. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL426.

Edward, M. (2020). Lexical Iconicity in Ghanaian Sign language and Adamorobe Sign Language. In Nina Pawlak and Izabela Will, eds. Languages of West Africa. Linguistic Theory and Communication, 230-251. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Asonye, E., Edward., M & Asonye, E.E. (2020). Linguistic genocide against development of signed languages in Africa. In Eno-Absai Urua, et al. African Languages in Time and Space: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi, 337-359. Ibadan: Zenith BookHouse.

Akanlig-Pare, G. & Edward, M. (2020). Societal Perception of Hearing Impairment in Ghana: A Report on Adamorobe. Lancaster University Ghana Journal on Disability, Vol. 2. 62-84. Lancaster University Ghana.

Agbozo, G. E., Edward, M., & Inusah, F. (2019). “Onaapo” vs. “One Factory”: A critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian political campaign lyrics (2012-2016). In U. Onyebadi, ed. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena, 221-240. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.  https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7295-4.ch012

Edward, M. (2018). Behind the veil: The impact of deafness on rural livelihoods in Ghana (Case study of a Deaf couple in Adamorobe). Lancaster University Ghana Journal on Disability, Vol. 1. 126-148. Lancaster University Ghana.

Asonye, E., Asonye, E-A., & Edward, M. (2018). Deaf in Nigeria: A preliminary study on isolated Deaf communities. Sage Open 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018786538 

Edward, M. (2018). Our signs matter: Protecting sign language in Adamorobe (Ghana). In Taofiki Koumakpai, et al. Language and Literature for Communication in Human Societies: Papers in Honour of Late Dr (Mrs) Elisabeth Amagah De Campos, 277-288. Porto Novo: Panafrican University Institute.

Online Resource (Non-Peer reviewed)

Edward, M. (2014). The Phonology and the Morphology of the Ghanaian Sign language. Presented at the ATELIER International Conference, Abidjan, Cote d’lvoire on July 24, 2014. Download here.