African Languages – Digital Humanities Now

Editors’ Choice: Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters: The Impact of Egyptian OpenType

Our take: In “Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters,” published in The Digital Orientalist, So Miyagawa traces how Unicode has slowly learned to handle the two-dimensional layout of hieroglyphs. Basic signs entered the standard in 2009, but they could only appear in a flat line until control characters for stacking and […]

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Editors’ Choice: For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies

Our take: In “For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies,” Frédérick Madore and colleagues critically examine the growing role of artificial intelligence in African Studies. The paper considers how large language models intersect with digital archives, linguistic inequality, data governance, consent, and uneven technological infrastructures. […]