African Arabic
Vaughn Rasberry, New Lines Magazine, In Search of African Arabic, 30 September, 2021 I missed this article the first time around: “For more than a millennium, Arabic in Africa...
Timbuktu: Qur’an Manuscript Fragments
Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor, HMML, Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections, 16 Mar 2023 This is really interesting. Do check out the whole article....
‘Islamic State’ ISWAP
In the latest issue of the weekly al-Naba (378), the Islamic State (#IS) published an infographic to claim a major IS-#Sahel attack against the #Niger army and a banner...
West Africa
Salah Muhammad Salis, Graphic, Rethining violent extremism through the Islamic lens (opinion/analysis) Tech references in this article:“Religiously motivated terrorism remains one of West Africa’s most pressing security threats. Militant...
West Africa ISWAP
Sahara Reporters, Report Reveals How Boko Haram, ISWAP Use Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram To Recruit, Spread Propaganda In Nigeria “Institute for Security Studies has called on governments across the African...