Articles - - -

• Chutel, Lynsey. “Tech savvy innovators are in a race to save their African languages and boost literacy,” Quartz Africa, September 20, 2018.

Books - -

• Agwuele, Augustine, and Adams Bodomo. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics. London New York, NY Routledge
• Heine, Bernd, and Derek Nurse. 2000. African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
• Maddieson, Ian, and Thomas J. Hinnebusch. 1998. Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa. Trenton: Africa World Press.
• Mc Laughlin, Fiona. 2009. The Languages of Urban Africa. London: Continuum.
• Nurse, Derek, and Bernd Heine. 2008. A Linguistic Geography of Africa. Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press.
• Voeltz, Erhard Friedrich Karl. 2005. Studies in African Linguistic Typology. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
• Welmers, William Everett. 1973. African Language Structures. Berkeley (Calif.) [etc.]: University of California Press.

Videos - - -

• Khoisan click language
• Languages of Africa: isiZulu
• Languages of Africa: Sesotho
• Miriam Makeba - Click Song (Qongqothwane) (Live)
• UC Berkeley Top Linguist of African Languages Prof. Sam Mchombo

Websites - - 

• Amenuti Narmer, “African Writing Systems – Where Do We Go From Here?,” Grandmother Africa, February 20, 2015.
• Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets From simple alphabets to secret symbolic languages, graphic designer Saki Mafundikwa celebrates the many forms of written communication across the continent of Africa. He highlights the history and legacy that are embodied in written words and symbols, and urges African designers to draw on these graphic forms for fresh inspiration. It’s summed up in his favorite Ghanaian glyph, Sankofa, which means “return and get it” — or “learn from the past.”

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