Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism

Diversity Toolbox Black/African American Bibliography

This bibliography identifies items of interest to those working with Alzheimer's disease in Black and African American communities. The list is not exhaustive and selection does not constitute endorsement. Additional information may be found in the general diversity bibliography. Theses Videos Books and Booklets 10 signs every African-American should know.

Negro, Black, Black African, African Caribbean, African American or what? Labelling African origin populations in the health arena in the 21st century.

Broad terms such as Black, African, or Black African are entrenched in scientific writings although there is considerable diversity within African descent populations and such terms may be both offensive and inaccurate. This paper outlines the heterogeneity within African populations, and discusses the strengths and limitations of the term Black and related labels from epidemiological and publi...

African Languages An Introduction

Statistical unicodification of African languages

Many languages in Africa are written using Latin-based scripts, but often with extra diacritics (e.g. dots below in Igbo: i., o. , u. ) or modifications to the letters themselves (e.g. open vowels “e” and “o” in Lingala: ε, O). While it is possible to render these characters accurately in Unicode, oftentimes keyboard input methods are not easily accessible or are cumbersome to use, and so the v...

Indigenous Scripts of African Languages

In Africa there are a number of languages. Some of these languages have their own indigenous scripts. In this paper we present script analysis for the indigenous scripts of African languages, with particular emphasis to Amharic language. Amharic is the official and working language of Ethiopia, which has its own writing system. This is the first attempt to analyze scripts of African language to...