Category: African Studies

The digital needs for the Coptic script are becoming better served in recent years, with the introduction of a standard…

The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system…

In 1961, El Hadji Assane Faye was inspired by listening to a radio speech by the president of newly independent…

I have never been to Liberia.  I tried to get there once, in 2009, for the Liberian Studies Association conference…

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…

One of the more curious African scripts around is one that I was introduced to by Joe Lauer, a librarian…

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”.…