This site is aimed at students of African Studies or Anthropology as well as at development workers and missionaries who plan to travel to and stay for some time in Northern Nigeria or Southern Niger. The site is for intermediate learners with some previous knowledge in Hausa. The course teaches how to read and understand easy texts and texts of medium difficulty. ... [according to site editor's information]
Online dictionary for the Hausa language, created by the German African linguits Dr. Uwe Seibert. It is possible to look for English-Hausa, German-Hausa or Hausa-English/German. The dictionary recognizes words written without the accents or without the right length of vowls. Implosives are written with an accent after the respective consonant. ... [according to site editor's information]
Hausa Home Page of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Topics include:
Resources and references for studying the Hausa language
Hausa online grammar
Hausa culture lessons
Hausa Poetry and Song
Links to other pages on the Hausa language and people
HAUSAR BAKA video-based course: order information and downloadable transcript, vocabulary, and exercises You will find much more information there than is recognisable at first sight, as there are many links in the chapters that lead to sub-pages you wouldn't find otherwise. ... [according to site editor's information]
Homepage of Prof. Schuh, wrote wrote the famous "Spoken Hausa" textbook together with Cowan. This site offers you very extensive resources, different websites about projects and languages, many full text documents and audio and video files. Schuh's focus is on Chadic languages. [editors ilissAfrica]
PRAESA's focus is basically on education and literacy in African languages. The site offers a lot of information on projects or other organisations involved in such matters, as well as full text documents (reports, occasional papers, newsletter). [editors ilissAfrica]
One of the main sites about the scripture and movement of N'ko, scripture invented by Guinean Solomana Kante in 1949 for the Mande languages. In order to view the site cirrectly, you have to download some special fonts. The site is a little bit chaotic. The following links are of special interest: "Kafa Lu Serede" (an extensiv list of over 100 books in N'ko), "Kanté" (Songs of Souleymane Kanté and other texts in French and English, among others from N'ko researcher Diane Oyler), "Écriture N'ko" and "Contacts" (contacts to representatives all over the world). The author of the site, Diané, is a professor for N'ko at the University of Al-Azhar in Cairo since 2003. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The main purpose of this site is to offer easy access to online materials dealing with African languages. In particular, this site collects links to other sites hosting free stuff, be they downloadable files (of any format), web-readable texts, searchable databases, or whatever. Particular attention is given to materials that contain structural/descriptive data, though not exclusively so. Links to commercial enterprises won't be added, as a rule. [according to site editor's information] A short bibliography to every language is given. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The SOAS in London is one of the largest research centers worldwide in the study of the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East (founded in 1916). African languages taught at the SOAS: Afrikaans, Amharic, Hausa, Igbo, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Yoruba, Zulu. [editors ilissAfrica]