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Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga, is a Comorian linguistic, writer, researcher, politic and professor born in Ouani (Nzwani) in 1952.
He has worked mainly to make known his Comorian culture and in 2006 he was candidate for his country presidential election.
After his secondary studies, he graduated in Swahili and Arabic language and travelled to Madagascar and France where he made studies in linguistics. He created in 1976 a method to transcript Shikomori, and started writing articles about this language. He later published his thesis « Le Shindzuani (Comores) : Phonologie, morphologie, lexique » (1991) and has written lots of articles about Shikomori and transcribed Comorian tales.
He's currently teacher of Comorian at the « Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, collaborator of Centre National de Documentation et de Recherche Scientifique (CNDRS, Moroni y Ouani) and professor at the University of Comoros since its creation.