Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
This time, I (So Miyagawa) decided to interview Arbaab (Hatim Eujayl), who is making Sawarda Nubian, an Old Nubian script … Continue reading Making a Unicode Font for the Nubian Language Revitalization Movement
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus … Continue reading Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
Based at MIT’s Aga Khan Documentation Center, Archnet (AKDC@MIT) is an open-access resource focused on architecture, conservation issues, environmental and … Continue reading Decolonize University-Based Databases
This is a post by our guest contributors, Ulrich Rebstock and Marvin Müller The application AABC (African Alphabets of the … Continue reading AABC – African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance … Continue reading An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
One of Guinea’s foremost scholars passed away in March of this year at the age of 89 from COVID-19. Djibril … Continue reading The epic world of Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932-2021)
As I noted in my first post for the Digital Orientalist in 2018, two 1943 Loma texts remain to be fully translated … Continue reading Advancing on the encoding of Loma
While proposals for Unicode inclusion of the Bété and Kpelle scripts are being developed, there has been some interest on … Continue reading Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
As I noted in an earlier post, there was one 19th century prayer that had been published in Mende in Latin script … Continue reading Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
In a previous post, “Minding Mende”, I introduced the notebooks of Bokari Kanneh that had been digitized, and were awaiting … Continue reading Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source
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