Dr. Tuchscherer is a specialist in African history and
languages. The professor's interests include nineteenth and
twentieth century West Africa, colonialism in Africa, and Gullah
history in South Carolina and Georgia. His important research on
the origin, development and spread of writing in Africa has
appeared in several leading journals on the Bagam script of
Cameroon in African Affairs, the Vai script of Liberia in
History in Africa, the Mende script of Sierra Leone in
African Languages and Cultures and Journal of African
Cultural Studies, and Egyptian hieroglyphs in Africana
Bulletin. Dr. Tuchscherer is currently writing a book entitled
Black Scribes that explores the history of the written
word in Africa from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern West
African alphabets. He first began his study of African scripts at
the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies,
where he took his Ph.D. as a British Marshall Scholar. His research
experience in Africa includes Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra
Leone, Liberia, and The Gambia.