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What is ALMA? ALMA has soul!

The African Language Materials Archive, or ALMA, is a multi-partner project focusing on the promotion and documentation of literature and literacy in the languages of Africa. It further serves to assist African language authors and publishers in publicizing and distributing their work.

ALMA’s Websites

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ALMA has two websites. At our original site, a section of the Digital Library for International Research, you can find African language literary documents. This, our complementary site, contains complementary materials including African language video recordings, documentary video, translation work, and bibliographies, space for which is provided by the MATRIX Project of Michigan State University.

About ALMA

In October 2000, UNESCO established a contract with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) for the feasibility phase of the Senegambian portion of the African Language Material Archive (ALMA). CAORC subcontracted with the West African Research Association (WARA) to facilitate the necessary work. ALMA is an initiative that aims to increase dissemination of and access to materials published in indigenous African languages, thereby serving as a vehicle for education and literacy in Africa, and for African language study in the diaspora. ALMA involves the identification, collection, and digitization of published materials and their subsequent production in both CD-ROM and web formats. The website serves as a resource demonstrating the depth and breadth of publishing in African languages, and is designed to facilitate and publicize the work of African authors and publishers. Senegal and Gambia were chosen for the ALMA pilot since they share several prominent languages – Wolof, Pulaar, and Mandinka – in which publication has been plentiful. Since then, the project has been expanded and now presents materials from various West African countries as well as from eastern and southern African countries. ALMA is part of the CAORC-sponsored American Overseas Digital Library, which aims to make inaccessible material available in electronic form to all audiences.

Title VI National Resource Centers’ contributions to ALMA

In recent years, the ALMA project has benefited greatly from annual contributions made by Title VI National Resources Centers.

The following Title VI Centers remain generous supporters of ALMA and make ALMA’s work possible

• Boston University
• Harvard University
• Howard University
• Michigan State University
• Northwestern University
• University of Florida
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Minnesota
• Yale University

ALMA’s Advisory Board

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John Hutchison, ALMA Director, Boston University

Director of ALMA since 2002, Hutchison worked as African Language Coordinator at Boston U. from 1980 until 2007. As ALMA Coordinator he has worked to expand ALMA in new directions. He is now Associate Professor Emeritus of African Languages & Linguistics. He works principally in West Africa on the cultural and linguistic reform of education systems and on the promotion of the local language publishing industry there.

Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers University

Director of African Languages & Literatures in the Department of Africana Studies, Alidou works on women’s literature in the languages of Niger and is an activist promoting the use of African languages in African education systems. Her current research interests include African women’s literary and expressive cultures, comparative women’s narratives (Afro-Islamic and Francophone Experience), and African Muslim women and the politics of agency and cultural production.

Issa Diallo, University of Ouagadougou

Professor Diallo is the Director of the National Commission of the Fulfulde language of Burkina Faso, and holds a faculty position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ouagadougou. He has done extensive research on literacy, establishing an experimental literacy program for pastoralists. His work also focuses on language contact.

James Essegbey, University of Florida

Essegbey specializes in descriptive linguistics and language contact. He is interested in descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, especially in the domain of syntax, semantics and pragmatics; contact linguistics; language and culture; Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain languages; and creole studies.

Henriette Ouedraogo Ilboudo, Radio Rurale, Ouagadougou

Director of the Rural Radio Services of the national radio station in Ouagadougou, Ilboudo is an activist for women and for local languages. She is the founding editor of a women’s newspaper in Moore.

Kassim Kone, State University of New York-Cortland

Tenured Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Cortland, Kone completed his PhD at Indiana University on the role of the proverb in Bamana society in Mali under Michael Jackson. He is a renowned scholar of Mande studies and Vice-President of MANSA.

Fallou Ngom, Boston University

He became Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston U. in 2008. He works in sociolinguistics and literacy. Fluent in a number of West African languages, Professor Ngom is currently conducting comparative research on Ajami literatures of several Muslim ethnic groups of the Senegambian region. He also works in Forensic Linguistics with a focus on refugees and asylum seekers from West Africa. This new field uses Language Analysis as a way of determining the accurate national origin of some asylum seekers in many Western countries.

Donald Z. Osborn, Bisharat

Donald Osborn is the Founder and coordinator of Bisharat!: A Language, Technology, and Development Initiative that has a significant website for encouraging the use of African languages on the worldwide web. He has developed a listserv for scholars of African languages, has been instrumental in the pioneering of Wikipedia sites for African languages, and is a crusader for African languages in information technology.

Leigh Swigart, Brandeis University

Swigart is a former director of both WARC and WARA. She was instrumental in bringing WARA to its present seat in the African Studies Center at Boston University. Now the Director of Programs in International Justice and Society at the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University, she has linked ALMA to the human rights movement and with Hutchison and Yanco developed proposals for the translation of the human rights documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights into 30 West African languages for which funding is pending.

Jennifer Yanco, Ex-officio member:
West African Research Association

Currently the US Director of WARA, Yanco did her PhD at Indiana University on language contact and bilingualism among Hausa and Zarma speakers in the Nigerien city of Niamey. She has since taught in the African Languages Program at Boston University and has served as a Fulbright lecturer in linguistics at the University of Niamey. Her area of specialization is West African languages.

Brian Nowak

Brian Nowak is an independent consultant and educator from the suburbs of New York City. As an undergraduate, he studied in Niger with a Boston University study abroad program for a year and a half, focusing on the social aspects of bilingual education, formal and informal education, and the possession ceremonies of the Hausa and Zarma/Songhai. Upon returning to the States for graduate school, he taught for 5 years in New York City public schools, piloting an inclusive classroom program, a multi-cultural music program, and an after-school music therapy class in a Pre-K to 6 school in Brooklyn. He moved to Niger in 2005 where he now lives in an adobe off-grid home, travelling extensively in rural Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and Northern Ghana.

With a background in anthropology and education, Brian has consulted for international humanitarian organizations and academics and is currently the programs director of American NGO Rain for the Sahel and Sahara. He previously taught 3 courses for the Boston University study abroad program, consulted for the West Africa Research Association conference in Niamey as musical program organizer, led expeditions for music label Sublime Frequencies, and is participating in the planning of the Niger Heritage museum project for Niamey and Agadez in Niger led by Paul Serano. Brian initiated and is the main contributor for the Language of African Music for the ALMA website. Other interests include collecting traditional West African music, studying pastoral lifestyles, animist practices, possession music, and intra-cultural differences.

Website Credits

The ALMA Project organizers would like to acknowledge here the financial support from the group of the Title VI Africa National Resource Centers who have kindly agreed to contribute funds to support the ongoing development of the African Language Materials Archive.

• John Hutchison, ALMA Director
• Brian Nowak, ALMA Board Member and Language of African Music Producer
• West African Research Association
• MATRIX Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences
• Lori DeLucia, Film Editor
• Attic Windows Web Design Web design and maintenance

Contact ALMAalmasite.wara@gmail.com