{"id":19804,"date":"2021-08-20T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/?page_id=19804"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:27:07","slug":"african-ajami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/research\/projects\/african-ajami\/","title":{"rendered":"African \u2018Ajami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Projects and Archives<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bu.edu\/handle\/2144\/1896\">African Ajami Library<\/a> \u2013 Boston University&#8217;s open-access digital library, OpenBU<\/li>\n<li class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eap.bl.uk\/project\/EAP1042\">Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami Manuscripts of Senegal (EAP334)<\/a> \u2013 British Museum, Endangered Archives Programme<\/li>\n<li class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eap.bl.uk\/project\/EAP1042\">Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal (EAP1042)<\/a> \u2013 British Museum, Endangered Archives Programme<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nehajami\/\">\u02bfAjami Literature and the Expansion of Literacy and Islam: The Case of West Africa<\/a> \u2013 National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant<\/li>\n<li id=\"pagetitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.universitypressscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780190279868.001.0001\/acprof-9780190279868\"><em>Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2016) by Fallou Ngom\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of African Studies Association&#8217;s Herskovits Prize (now called the ASA Book Prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Learning Resources<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites-staging.bu.edu\/ria\">Readers in Ajami<\/a> \u2013 funded by the U.S. Department of Education to <span>develop specialized Ajami readers in Hausa, Wolof, and Mandinka (three major African languages with rich written Ajami literatures) with a multimedia companion website<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><span itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2022\/10\/Cover_Spine.pdf\">S\u00f3\u00f3bu Ci G\u00e9\u00e9jug Wolofal: Nj\u00e0ng Mu Nj\u00ebkk Ci Wolofal (Diving into the Ocean of Wolofal: First Workbook in Wolofal\/Wolof Ajami)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span itemprop=\"name\">by Fallou Ngom and Alex Zito, 2010<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2022\/10\/Hausa-Ajami-WB.pdf\"><em>Jagoran Koyan Hausa Ajami a Aiwace (A Practical Guide to Learning Hausa Ajami)<\/em><\/a> by Mustapha Kurfi, 2017<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bu.edu\/africa\/files\/2022\/10\/Hausa-Ajami-for-PH.png\">Littafin Koyan Hausa Ajami Don Lafiar Al-Umma (Hausa Ajami Workbook for Public Health)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Mustapha Kurfi, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ascinfo@bu.edu\">Contact us<\/a> to learn about how to acquire copies of the workbooks above. Additional materials are in development thanks to funding provided by the US Department of Education through its Title VI National Resource Center program.<\/p>\n<h1>In the News<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/01\/10\/the_lost_script\/\" title=\"Ajami Boston Globe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/digitizing-ajami-african-written-language\/\">Digitizing Ajami, a Centuries-Old African Script<\/a>\u00a0<span>\u2013 <\/span><i>The Brink<\/i>, January 23, 2020<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2019\/10\/refuting-the-claim-that-precolonial-africa-lacks-written-traditions\">Refuting that Africa Lacked Written Traditions<\/a><span> \u2013 <\/span><i>Africa is a Country<\/i>, October 1, 2019<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/2018\/04\/02\/professor-fallou-ngom-awarded-herskovits-prize\/\">Professor Fallou Ngom Awarded Herskovits Prize<\/a><span> \u2013 <\/span><i>BU Center for the Humanities<\/i>, April 2, 2018<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/01\/10\/the_lost_script\/\" title=\"Ajami Boston Globe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lost Script<\/a><span> \u2013 <\/span><i>The Boston Globe<\/i>, January 10, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Projects and Archives African Ajami Library \u2013 Boston University&#8217;s open-access digital library, OpenBU Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami Manuscripts of Senegal (EAP334) \u2013 British Museum, Endangered Archives Programme Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal (EAP1042) \u2013 British Museum, Endangered Archives Programme \u02bfAjami Literature and the Expansion of Literacy and Islam: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14760,"featured_media":0,"parent":3743,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19804"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19804\/revisions\/22573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}