When walking into the “Languages of West African Marketplaces” exhibit located in the University Research Gallery at the Harvard Art Museums, the bright thread of the exhibit quickly jumps out ...

Hausa is a Chadic language spoken widely in Nigeria and Niger, with prominent communities in Ghana, Cameroon, and Sudan. Serving as a lingua franca in West Africa, it plays a key role in trade ...

Atlantic languages, a small and heterogenous group of Niger-Congo languages, are not well known outside specialist circles. This volume presents the first ever overview of Atlantic languages from ...

Africa’s sixth-biggest country, Niger, has taken a bold step to distance itself from its troubled past by adopting a new official language. For over 60 years, France controlled the country as ...