Enhancing Relationships 1 (Jokkere Enɗaŋ 1)
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| Title | Enhancing Relationships 1 (Jokkere Enɗaŋ 1) |
| Author or Owner | El Hadj Mouhamadou Sall (owner) |
| Subject | Community Practices, Ceremonies, Religious Organizations |
| Content | The documents talk about the activities of the Pita community in Dakar (people from the town of Pita in Guinea Conakry). There are a series of letters portraying the relationship between two communities: Pita immigrants in Dakar and those still in Pita in Guinea. They demonstrate in three instances how members of one community rally to help the other. The first letter calls the Pita immigrants in Dakar, Senegal to a meeting at the Sandaga Market. All people are urged to attend, showing to help build a mosque in Dakar for the Guinean community. The second letter is a call to help build a mosque in Pita, Guinea. Community members are urged to provide cement and corrugated metal sheets (or an equivalent amount of money). The third letter discusses personal connections between a migrant to Paris and a person in Dakar. Another letter features a man thanking the Guinean Pita community for his baby’s naming ceremony. The baby was born while he was overseas. The community organized a ceremony for his baby and mother back home. The fifth and final letter shows how Ajami texts contain political discussions as well, as the writer cautions others from engaging with the Guinean Ambassador to Senegal, who favors a different political party. These letters convey how actions and relationships are built between both Pita communities in Senegal and Guinea, and how migrants maintained important ties to their home communities in a variety of ways. |
| Genre | Prose |
| Language | Fuuta Jalon Fula |
| Script | Fuuta Jalon Fula Ajami |
| Manuscript condition | Good, but some are stained. |
| Type | Handwritten |
| Publisher | Unpublished |
| Provenance | Dakar, Senegal |
| Source Reference | Mouhamadou L. Diallo and Fallou Ngom. 2016. African Ajami Library: Digital Preservation of Fuuta Jalon Pular Ajami Manuscripts: https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/18700 |
| Access condition and copyright | These materials are subject to copyright and are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For use, distribution or reproduction beyond these terms, contact Professor Fallou Ngom (fngom@bu.edu). |
| Contributors | Fallou Ngom, David Robinson, Mouhamadou L. Diallo, David Glovsky, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Boubacar Biro Diallo, Omar Diallo, Ndieme Sow, Eric Schmidt, Alison Parker, Frank Antonelli, Shawn Provencal, and Mark Lewis. |
| Required citation information | Fallou Ngom (PI), Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo, David Glovsky, Boubacar Biro Diallo, Ndieme Sow, Daivi Rodima-Taylor and other contributors.. 2022. “Enhancing Relationships 1.” https://sites.bu.edu/nehajami/the-four-languages/fula/fula-manuscripts/jokkere-endan-1/ |
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