{"id":14563,"date":"2022-12-21T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:45:24","slug":"prof-ngom-interviewed-by-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/2022\/12\/21\/prof-ngom-interviewed-by-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Ngom interviewed by The Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ngom was profiled by The Brink for their article entitled: &#8220;Unearthing a Long-Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans: BU anthropologist Fallou Ngom discovered Ajami, a modified Arabic script, in a box of his late father\u2019s old papers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system\/?fbclid=IwAR1N3hxvMy_6VJaBAt2mMq4MjyEAEBzTeeOiYYpWqDZnNmlDyMHg_SgaVeY\">here<\/a>: https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system\/?fbclid=IwAR1N3hxvMy_6VJaBAt2mMq4MjyEAEBzTeeOiYYpWqDZnNmlDyMHg_SgaVeY<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/anthrop\/files\/2023\/01\/ngom-the-brink-449x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2023\/01\/ngom-the-brink-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2023\/01\/ngom-the-brink-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2023\/01\/ngom-the-brink-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2023\/01\/ngom-the-brink-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2023\/01\/ngom-the-brink.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ngom was profiled by The Brink for their article entitled: &#8220;Unearthing a Long-Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans: BU anthropologist Fallou Ngom discovered Ajami, a modified Arabic script, in a box of his late father\u2019s old papers.&#8221; Check out the article here: https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system\/?fbclid=IwAR1N3hxvMy_6VJaBAt2mMq4MjyEAEBzTeeOiYYpWqDZnNmlDyMHg_SgaVeY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17621,"featured_media":14564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1607],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14565,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions\/14565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}