91809Old Kanembu in Early West African Qur’anic manuscripts and Islamic recitations (Tarjumo)
A study of Old Kanembu in Early West African Qur’anic manuscripts and Islamic recitations (Tarjumo) in the light of Kanuri-Kanembu dialects spoken around Lake Chad

In spring 2009, a new DFG project within the framework of a new scheme, the agreement between DFG and AHRC (Common German-British research projects in the Geisteswissenschaften) has started:

Research team from Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg: Prof. Dr. Roland Kießling, Prof. Dr. Michael Friedrich (main applicants), Dr. Doris Löhr (principal researcher) (contact: doris.loehr@uni-hamburg.de), and other collaborators.
Research team from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London: Prof. Dr. Phil Jaggar (main applicant), Dr. Dmitry Bondarev (principal researcher) (contact: Db5@soas.ac.uk), Dr. Abba Isa Tijani

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90431Forthcoming: XIVth MEGA-TCHAD Colloquium, Bayreuth/Germany April 2010
«Man and Health in the Lake Chad Basin »
Bayreuth University – Germany
Bayreuth, April 15th – 17th 2010

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90331Early Nigerian Koranic manuscripts
Early Nigerian Koranic manuscripts: an interdisciplinary study of the Kanuri glosses and Arabic commentaries

A project supported by the AHRB research grants scheme at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
by Philip J. Jaggar, A. D. H. Bivar, Rosemary Seton, Dmitry Bondarev, Abba Isa Tijani, Daniel Vazquez-Paluch.
2005 - 2008
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90231Information Structure in the Chadic Languages
Research project within the Collaborative Research Center "Information structure: the linguistic means for structuring utterances, sentences and texts"
by Dr. Katharina Hartmann
project period: 2007 - 2011
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90131Appropriation of massproducts in northern Nigeria
A project of the Frobenius-Institut at the University of Frankfurt a. M.
by Editha Platte
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80431Cultural Changes in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC West African Sahel
A subproject of the DFG Research Group „Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa“, University of Frankfurt a.M.
By Peter Breunig and Carlos Magnavita
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80431Borno Music Documentation Project
extract from Thomas Geider, 1997
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