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Inspired by a wide range of historical literature of the foundation of colonial Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Krio sheds new light on the diverse demographic ecology in which the language emerged. Underscoring the significance of substrate influence on its grammar, Selase W. Williams and Tom Spencer-Walters' interpretation of Krio's genesis is provocative, inviting the informed reader to find solid arguments if they should disagree. Their discussion is comprehensive, lucid, and engaging. This is a must-read for anybody working on the emergence of creoles.

Inspired by a wide range of historical literature of the foundation of colonial Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Krio sheds new light on the diverse demographic ecology in which the language emerged. Underscoring the significance of substrate influence on its grammar, Selase W. Williams and Tom Spencer-Walters' interpretation of Krio's genesis is provocative, inviting the informed reader to find solid arguments if they should disagree. Their discussion is comprehensive, lucid, and engaging. This is a must-read for anybody working on the emergence of creoles. --Salikoko Mufwene, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago

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Selase W. Williams was director of African American Studies at the University of Washington, where he taught Krio for a decade. He chaired the Pan African Studies Department at California State University, Northridge, while president of the National Council for Black Studies, and served as dean of Arts and Sciences at CSU Dominguez Hills before becoming provost at Southern Connecticut State and Lesley University. Tom Spencer-Walters is professor emeritus and former chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where he taught writing and African and Caribbean literatures. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and a Visiting Professor at the University of Zimbabwe.

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