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Project ASK-DL collects knowledge from highly experienced traditional leaders
in African communities
Old handwritten and preserved documents containing poems
dedicated to prophet Muhammad

AFRICA’S SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE – DIGITAL LIBRARY

U.S. Department of Education, TICFIA Program

Project ASK-DL is funded by the U.S. Department of Education through the Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program. Award #: P337A090009

African Language Program at Harvard

ASK-DL is a project in the African Language Program of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

The Africa’s Sources of Knowledge – Digital Library Project

The ASK-DL project is a pioneering initiative in the identification, recovery, integration, consolidation, and dissemination of information contained in rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts.

Project Director, Professor John M. Mugane, Harvard University
Wolof in Wolof Ajami (Wolofal) script
Tifinagh in Tifinagh script
Bamanankan in N’ko script
Bamanankan in N’ko script
Amharic in Ge’ez script