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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1895
Founded in 1953, the African Studies Center has provided a strong foundation in African studies to generations of university professors, economists, health workers, government officials, development personnel, diplomats, and numerous others.
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Materials for the study of postcolonial Africa in the LDS church history library: manuscripts
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 2019)This bibliography contains manuscript materials relevant to the study of postcolonial Africa located in the Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in downtown Salt Lake City, ... -
The lango of Uganda: Identity, origin, migration, and settlements
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 2021)This paper sheds new knowledge on the identity, origin, migration, and settlements of the Lango people, highlighting their unique sociopolitical and military structures. Overlooked print and documented oral histories of ... -
LDS materials for the study of Sub-Saharan Africa at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
(Boston University, African Studies Center, 2020)This brief working paper contains a list of archival materials for the study of both colonial and postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa located at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, ... -
اللهم صل على محمد يا عالم الهدى سابي كانت زندا [Allāhu masali alaMuhammad yālamahudā sābuñ kantu zandā]
(1972)This manzuma expresses the longing (ናፍቆት, nafqot) to be with Allah. It uses some words and phrases in the Amharic language that relate especially to the Gondar region. -
سلام عليكم بدر متمم [Salām ʿalaykum badru metamamu]
(2011)The manuscript is a eulogy for the Prophet Muhammad. It describes love for the Prophet, and longing for him, written the way a lover describes his love, and especially before they venture on the Hajj. -
Fallou Ngom and Roger Brisson leading a digitization training at the West African Research Center
(2011-07-09)Roger Brisson (4th from left) and Fallou Ngom (standing right) at the West African Research Center in Dakar, training the Senegal fieldwork team for the digital preservation of Wolof Ajami manuscripts. This project (EAP ... -
Excerpt from: Collected works of Nana Asma’u, daughter of Usman ‘dan Fodiyo (1793-1864)
(Michigan State University Press, 1997)This manuscript is a collection of poems written by Nana Asma'u Bint Usman 'dan Fodiyo, a nineteenth-century Muslim scholar, who lived in the region now known as northern Nigeria and was an eyewitness to battles of the ... -
Video interview: "What Yoruba Anjemi means to me"
(2021-01-22)Video interview with with Alhaja Maryam Ahmed about the origins and meaning of Yoruba Anjemi. -
Igbesi Aiye Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (The life and times of Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti)
(2019)This Yoruba Ajami text written in 2020 is a biography of Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian activist, feminist, and the first woman in Abeokuta to drive a car. She is recognized as the first female Nigerian political ... -
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