{"id":61040,"date":"2025-03-27T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=61040"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:02:24","slug":"mouhamadou-lamine-diallo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/mouhamadou-lamine-diallo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo is a native speaker of Pular (Fuuta Jalon Fula) and Wolof, with\u00a0 extensive experience teaching both languages at Harvard University, Suffolk University, and Boston\u00a0 University. He has also contributed his expertise as a Wolof language consultant for linguistic field\u00a0 method courses at MIT and Boston University\u2019s Linguistics Program. Currently, he serves as a Wolof\u00a0 language lecturer (Ajami &amp; Roman Script) at the African Studies Center at Boston University, where\u00a0 he stands as the only Wolof instructor in North America trained to teach Wolof in both Latin and\u00a0 Ajami scripts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diallo is in the final stages of completing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nj\u00e0ngum Wolofal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Wolof Ajami workbook for\u00a0 intermediate and advanced students, supported by the BU African Studies Center\u2019s Title VI\u00a0 program. His work also extends into digital humanities research, having led the digital preservation\u00a0 of over 1,000 pages of Fuuta Jalon Ajami texts, now hosted at the African Ajami Library at Boston\u00a0 University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Diallo is collaborating with Professor Fallou Ngom on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project EAP 1430: Digital\u00a0 Preservation of Fuuta Jalon Scholars&#8217; Arabic and Ajami Materials in Senegal and Guinea<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, funded by\u00a0 the British Library. As Consultant and Project General Coordinator, he leads fieldwork trips to Fula\u00a0 communities in Senegal and Guinea, coordinates field activities, and conducts interviews with\u00a0 manuscript owners to gather metadata. His multilingual skills in Ajami, Arabic, French, and English,\u00a0 alongside his deep cultural and linguistic knowledge, make him a key figure in preserving West\u00a0 African written traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22640,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/61040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/61040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/61040\/revisions\/61521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}