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Category: 2024

Collaboration with Boston University on Ajami in West Africa comes to fruition

From 2019 to 2022, ISITA’s associate director Rebecca Shereikis and Northwestern University Libraries collaborated with a team led by Fallou Ngom and Daivi Rodima-Taylor...
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Student reflections on learning Swahili

          On June 2nd, 2004, I was born in the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Does that mean...
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ISITA-CSMC workshop emphasizes multidisciplinary approaches to manuscript studies

A November 16–18, 2023 workshop at the University of Hamburg marked another stage in the ongoing collaboration between ISITA, the Herskovits Library of African...
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African queens regnant

By: Esmeralda Kale, LaRay Denzer, Gene Kannenberg, Jr…. From the very beginning of African history, many women have acted as queens, assuming roles of...
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Student reflections on learning Swahili

        Lauren Gomez Without a doubt, embarking on my journey to learn Swahili has been one of my most enriching experiences...
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