#ajami #africanwritingsystem #literacy #Africanhistory
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/?fbclid=IwAR2ysYH3r1xuqNJO7CExnWnH__PyjMu4x1IIRl_4BgfLsfQXPYEiDSnu05s

“That’s when I realized: we’ve been told that these people are #illiterate and they’re absolutely not,” says Ngom, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences professor of #anthropology .

#ajami
#African #Writing

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

“That’s when I realized: we’ve been told that these people are #illiterate and they’re absolutely not,” says Ngom, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences professor of #anthropology .

#ajami
#African #Writing

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans | The Brink | Boston University

#Ajami #Senegal #Wolof #AfricanHistory #Language #Linguistics #Arabic #History #News

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

"people in Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, and other parts of West Africa use a modified Arabic alphabet to write in a number of local languages: Wolof, Hausa, Fula, Mandinka, Swahili, Amharic, Tigrigna, and Berber among them." https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/ #Africa #Writing #Ajami

Article about a project to digitize #Ajami, a catch-all term for the practice of using arabic script to write non-arabic African languages (a tradition much older than using latin script on most of the contintent, but studiously ignored by euro colonizers).

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/digitizing-ajami-african-written-language/

“important bodies of Ajami manuscripts have existed in Oromo, Somali, Tigrigna, Kiswahili, Amharic, and Malagasy in East Africa, and Bamanakan, Mandinka, Kanuri, Yoruba, Berber, Hausa, Wolof, and Fulfulde in West Africa for centuries.”

Here's a link to what's already online as part of the African Ajami Library:
https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/1896