The modern use of Arabic script for African languages

Some work on the modern use of Arabic script for African languages (especially Hausa) has appeared recently:

• Andy Warren-Rothlin, ‘Script Choice, Politics, and Bible Agencies in West Africa’, The Bible Translator: Technical Papers 60.1, 50-66.

• Andy Warren-Rothlin, ‘Arabic script in modern Nigeria’, in Roger Blench and Stuart McGill (eds), Advances in Minority Language Research in Nigeria Vol. 1 (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation African languages monographs 5; Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012) 105-21. (For the full volume, see http://www.koeppe.de/titel_details.php?id=632)

Further broader work in this field is also expected later this year in a Brill volume on The Arabic Script in Africa, edited by Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh.