Earlier I posted the websites for two web sources for African books, Soumbala and Africa Book Centre, and Wangui wa Mwangi has posted a list of books for sale...
FYI, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, an annual event that bills itself (with good reason, so far as I know) as "the largest and most important book fair...
N'ko* is an alphabet designed originally for the Mande (or Manding) languages of West Africa (Malinké, Mandingo, Bambara, Jula) by Souleyman Kanté in the...
I pass on this request for info on recent South African literature. I personally would be curious to know about novels written in South African languages other...
Here is info from H-Africa about an interesting initiative. There is no indication on the site (URL in text below) what languages other than English may be...
A new list "a12n-forum" has been created to share information and hopefully provide help for people and projects who want to use African languages on computers...
Hello, please follow the ff url, to check out news about a Yoruba keyboard developed in Nigeria. http://www.nigeria.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/1815.html Regards...
Hello all I'm new to the club and I am interested in historical novels by afican authors. I would like to get a list from anyone who could help me. Thanks. ...
This is very interesting news, and indeed I'd encourage anyone interested to read the article. It has information about more than just the keyboard layout. ...
I personally don't have any list, but since no one else has responded yet, you might try searching the discussion logs of the academic (but readable) list...
Thanks I'll check them out. Don Don Osborn <dzo@...> wrote: I personally don't have any list, but since no one else has responded yet, you might try...
Hi, I have a few historical novels by African Writers 1) Mau Mau a Revolution Betrayed by Maina wa Kinyatti 2) Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 3) A...
Wangui wa Mwangi
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Africa On-Line has a small web presentation on African languages for children at: http://wus.africaonline.com/AfricaOnline/kidsonly/languages/index.html ...
A new academic journal, Wagadu: A Journal for Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, is indicating openness to publish articles in several African languages...
Hello, I am looking for freelance translators for jobs between english > HAUSA, english > Kiswahili & english ... Interested persons, please mail me at ...
Hello, I am looking for freelance translators for jobs between english > HAUSA, english > Kiswahili & english ... Interested persons, please mail me at ...
Hi, I can do Kiswahili/English for US$ 0.15 per word i.e. fifteen cents of the US dollar per word. I can turn over about a thousand words per day Mwangi ... ...
Mwangi wa Mutahi
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The July 2003 issue of iConnect Africa has a couple of pieces on African languages and computers/internet: "Local content and the African information society,"...
For anyone interested, Please see the following website, which highlights a physical keyboard and driver developed for Nigerian languages in general. The folks...
This is indeed an interesting project and web presentation of it. It is also interesting that your fonts are in Unicode. We have mentioned it before as it is...
Hello Don, It is actually not my project, I just came across it myself some time ago, but thought you might be interested in it. Regards Egbaman1 ... It ... ...
Thank you, it is appreciated. Please keep us posted on anything you think may be interesting - it's important to get the information out so people can benefit...
I have learned that there are plans for the "ALMA" site http://www.aiys.org/aodl/EBOOKS/index.html to feature publicity for African language works submitted by...
Two sites are offering e-mail service in African languages: http://www.africast.com/ (click on "Multilingual e-mail") http://mailafrica.net/ It would be...
On the advantages of educating children multilingually... "The language of success" New research shows that children who speak at least two languages do better...
