AjamiMorph is a zero-annotation framework for discovering morphemes in Hausa Ajami (Hausa written in Arabic script) through multi-method consensus. This repository contains the complete implementation ...

The New Yorker article was written a year after a new 100 naira bill was introduced in Nigeria, which proved to be controversial because it replaced Ajami with Latin letters. Nigerian currency of ...

In episode 1 of this series, I discussed the popular 'received narrative' about the Red Hunter Legend supposed in those accounts as the ancestral father of all Dagbamba in Nanun, Dagbon, Mamprugu and ...

At just 19 years old, Parish Episcopal boys basketball coach Ahmad Ajami landed his first head coaching job at Fort Worth All Saints, igniting his passion for coaching. But it wasn't until he attended ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday, dismissed a lawsuit that sought the removal of Arabic inscriptions from naira notes. Justice Yellin Bogoro ruled against the suit filed by Lagos-based ...

Fallou Ngom was born in the small West African country of Senegal in 1960. His father, Shaykh Ngom, was a local trader who traveled frequently between the rural villages of Senegal, selling goods and ...

When his father died in 1996, Fallou Ngom returned to Senegal from where he was teaching French and linguistics at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. Ngom participated in the funeral ...

Did non-Muslims use Ajami? Yes, as it was a widely used medium of communication in West Africa in particular and there is nothing strange or sacrilegious about that. Arab Christians use Arabic Bibles ...