Additional Resources

  • Ngom, F., Rodima-Taylor, D., and Robinson, D. (2023). ʿAjamī Literacies of Africa: The Hausa, Fula, Mandinka, and Wolof Traditions. Islamic Africa, 14(2), 119-143.
  • Cisse, O. (2023). ʿAjamī Script in Senegambian Mandinka Communities. Islamic Africa, 14(2), 199-217.
  • Jamra, M, and N. Patel (2024). African ʿAjamī in the Digital Environment: Typographic and Technological Challenges.  Islamic Africa, 15(1), 38-50.
  • Yanco, J., and M. Kurfi (2023). The Role of ʿAjamī in Hausa Literary Production. Islamic Africa, 14(2), 162-177.
  • Ndiaye, G., Rowley, M., and E. Diagne. (2024). “Beating the Drums in God’s Wrestling Arena”: Spirituality Translated into Local Metaphor in Wolof Sufi ʿAjamī Poetry. Islamic Africa, 15(1), 13-37.
  • Salo, B. (2024). Word as Nourishment: Mandinka Proverbs of Senegambia. Islamic Africa, 15(1), 1-12.
  • Ngom, F. 2010. “Ajami Scripts in the Senegalese Speech Community,” in Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies, 10/1, 1-23.
  • Ngom, F. 2009. “Ahmadu Bamba’s Pedagogy and the Development of Ajami Literature,” African Studies Review, 52/1, 99-124.
  • Ngom, F. 2015. “Murid Ajami Sources of Knowledge: The Myth and the Reality,” in From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme, edited by Maja Kominko. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 119-164.
  • Ngom, F. and Castro, E. 2019. “Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance,” History Compass, 1-16.
  • Ngom, F. and Barton, K. 2023. “The Geographic Spaces of ʿAjamī in West Africa,” Islamic Africa, 14/2, 144-161.
  • McLaughlin, F. 2017. “ʿAjamī Writing Practices in Atlantic-Speaking Africa,” in The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages, ed. Friederike Lüpke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 10.
  • Souag, L. 2010.  “ʿAjamī in West Africa,” Afrikanistik Online, 7.
  • Bobboyi, H. 2008. “Ajami Literature and the Study of the Sokoto Caliphate,” in The Meanings of Timbuktu, ed. Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Capetown: HSRC Press.
  • Bobboyi, H. 2008. “Ajami Literature and the Study of the Sokoto Caliphate,” in The Meanings of Timbuktu, ed. Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Cape Town, SA, 123- 133.
  • Edward, J. 2004. “Hausa in the 20th Century: An Overview,” Sudanic Africa, 15, 55- 84.
  • Mack, B., and Boyd, J. 2000. One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’u, Scholar and Scribe. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1-29.
  • Skinner, N. 1996. Short stories. Hausa Readings. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Camara, S. 1977. “Ajami Literature in Senegal: The Example of Sëriñ Muusaa Ka, Poet and Biographer,” Research in African Literatures, 28, 163–82.
  • Addis, R.T., 1963. A Study on the Writing of Mandinka in Arabic Script. In: Arensdorff, L. Manuel Pratique de la Langue Peulh. Paris: Paul Geuthner.
  • Chtatou, M., 1992. Using Arabic Script in Writing the Languages of the People of Muslim Africa. Rabat: Institute of African Studies.
  • Giesing, C., and Vydrine, V. 2007. Ta:rikh mandinka de Bijini (Guinee-Bissau): La memoire des Mandinka et des Sooninkee du Kaabu. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
  • Ogorodnikova, D., 2017. “ʿAjamī annotations in multilingual manuscripts from Mande speaking areas: Visual and linguistic features.” Special Edition, edited by Fallou Ngom and Mustapha H. Kurfi, 2017, 8 (1 & 2): 111–143.