The history of mathematics in the world cannot be full without metioning the great contribution of the early black mathematician especially those from the medieval black Africans. Among these African mathematicians was Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fullani al-Kishwani. Unlike the 18th century Ghanaian Wilhem Anton Amoo, the great philosopher who worked and live in Europe, al-Fullani […]

Numerical Notation in Africa

Andrij Rovenchak (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine) urn:nbn:de:0009-10-35535 Zusammenfassung Die in Afrika verwendeten Systeme numerischer Notationen, aus dem alten Ägypten bis in die moderne Zeit, werden analysiert und in Tabellen dargestellt. Die Grundlagen der numerischen Dar-stellung werden kurz beschrieben. Abstract Systems of numerical notations used in Africa from the Ancient Egypt till modern […]

The Sociolinguistic Situation of ǂhoan, a Moribund ‘khoisan’ Language of Botswana [1]

Linda Gerlach and Falko Berthold, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics, Leipzig urn:nbn:de:0009-10-31645 Zusammenfassung Im Jahr 2010 führten wir eine Studie zur soziolinguistischen Situation der stark vom Aussterben bedrohten “Khoisan”-Sprache ǂHoan (Ju-ǂHoan) durch, die in Botswana am Rande der Kalahari Wüste gesprochen wird. Das Ziel der Studie war mehr […]

Igbo Nationalism and Biafra

Johannes Harnischfeger, Frankfurt urn:nbn:de:0009-10-30425 1. Foreword When I was living in Igboland in 1993 and from 1994 to 1996, there was not much talk about Biafra, the secessionist republic that had been defeated by the Nigerian army in 1970. Not one Igbo politician suggested that his or her people in the southeast of Nigeria should secede […]

Morphology-pragmatics Interface: the Case of the Tanzanian Commercials in Swahili Newspapers

Amani Lusekelo, Dar es Salaam University College of Education/University of Botswana urn:nbn:de:0009-10-27110 Abstract This work articulates the relationship between the choice of the vocabularies, their morphophonological modifications and the anticipated meanings in the language of commercial advertisements in Tanzanian Swahili newspapers. An eclectic approach that makes use of the Textual Analysis Approach and Lexical Morphology […]

Eine Neue Schrift FÜr Die Wolof-sprache

Saliou Mbaye (Köln) urn:nbn:de:0009-10-29917 <1> Ich möchte mich zuerst bei allen bedanken, die Interesse an Schriften in Afrika entwickelt haben. Aufrichtiger Dank richtet sich daher an Helma Pasch und Anja Kootz für ihre bemerkenswerten Bemühungen. Vielen Dank auch an alle, die zur Verwirklichung der Tagung „5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika“ beigetragen haben. Insofern geht ein […]

Somali Writings

Mauro Tosco (University of Turin) urn:nbn:de:0009-10-27237 Résumé L’article propose un aperçu sur les différentes écritures employées pour le Somali avant l’introduction en 1972 de l’alphabet latin. Avant une présentation sur le rôle de l’Islam et la littérature somalie en arabe, l’article discute les orthographes basés sur un’élaboration de l’écriture arabe, pour se concentrer ensuite sur […]

The Mandombe Script

Helma Pasch (University of Cologne) urn:nbn:de:0009-10-27241 Abstract Mandombe, one of the most recent modern African scripts, was originally designed to write the Bantu languages of the Congos, and eventually all languages on the continent. Its symbols are made of simple and composite geometrical forms which predate the script. It is apparently the only African script […]

Ajami in West Africa

Lameen Souag (SOAS) urn:nbn:de:0009-10-29579 Abstract West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today despite little or no government support. The variety of methods used to extend the Arabic script to fit other phonological systems are of particular […]

Development of Fonts for African Scripts: Using Computer Technologies to Preserve Africa’s Written Heritage

Andrij Rovenchak (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine) urn:nbn:de:0009-10-27604 Zusammenfassung Das Problem der Fonterstellung für moderne indigene afrikanische Schriftsysteme wird kurz besprochen, ebenso wie Kodierungsschwierigkeiten, den Unicode Standard eingeschlossen. Für einige der Schriften werden Schriftproben dargestellt.   Abstract The issue of the font making for modern indigenous African scripts is briefly discussed. Encoding problems, […]

Towards the Decipherment of the Bagam Script

Andrij Rovenchak, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine urn:nbn:de:0009-10-19125 Zusammenfassung Die Bagam (Eghap) Schrift aus der Region Grassfields in Kamerun wird kurz analysiert. Es wird versucht, die Lautwerte einiger Bagam Buchstaben zu bestimmen und Ähnlichkeiten mit der Bamum-Schrift herauszustellen. Abstract The Bagam (Eghap) script from the Grassfields region of Cameroon is briefly analyzed. An […]

The Nko Script and African Writing

INDIGENOUS AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY OF BRIEFS: AUTHOR: Dr Baba Mamadi DIANE Professor at Cairo University, October 2011 Translated by the N’ko Nafadji Sory CONDE and Faya Ismael Tolno Conakry, Guinea in December 2011 The name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. May Allah grant her peace and salvation to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)! The […]

The Afrijitsu Creed

  THE CREED OF THE AFRIJITSUKA   We are dedicated to providing a safe Martial Arts experience for our adult students.. Our mission is to foster self-improvement and personal development through focused training.   We promote physical fitness and positive social interaction in a courteous and fun atmosphere. Our greatest responsibility is to instill in […]

The Afrijitsu Philosophy

The Afrijitsu emblem is the tri-color sun sign used by the Mofe Dobi Clan in the Akosombo Region of the West African Republic of Ghana.   The emblem symbolizes three essentials: Respect, Admiration, and Honor. The arrows surrounding the emblem symbolize the harmonic flow of synergic force experienced by the Afrijitsuka resulting from the balance […]

The Afrijitsu Martial Arts System: Soke Dr. Leroy Hines, Jr.

    ABOUT THE FOUNDER Soke Dr. LeRoy Hines, Jr. has a simple purpose in life. He wants to push the martial arts as a science to its highest heights and then some. By adopting this personal mandate, Dr. Hines probably will not win a Nobel Prize or anything like it, but it’s his own little […]