Author: Rachael Griffiths

In previous posts I have discussed the process of encoding West African scripts into the Unicode standard.  The question that…

Back in the 1980’s, as the story goes, two Fulani brothers growing up in Guinea took it upon themselves to…

A fair amount of source material in the Kikakui script of the Mende language of Sierra Leone has just been…

For those interested in learning more about the history and use of the Kpelle language and script, there are a…

I write this in memory of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who called himself “Cheikh Nadro”, or “he who does not forget”.…

My memories of visiting Foumban, Cameroon in 2006 are still fairly vivid after a twelve-year absence.  The palace with a…