Precolonial Africa had written traditions
Ajami is the centuries-old practice in West Africa of writing other languages using the modified Arabic script. It is also more widely dispersed than we give it credit for.
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Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Daivi Rodima-Taylor is a social anthropologist and Africanist scholar based at the Pardee School of Global Studies of Boston University.
Mutual Entanglements
The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.