{"id":463,"date":"2021-04-09T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:10:09","slug":"mandinka-unit-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/mandinka\/mandinka-unit-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 4: Ousman Kijera 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title<\/td>Conversation with Ousman Kijera 1<\/td><\/tr>
Interviewer<\/td>Fallou Ngom, Bala Saho<\/td><\/tr>
Subject<\/td>Mandinka Ajami poetry, poetic styles, performing poetry<\/td><\/tr>
Content<\/td>Ousman Kijera was born in 1989 in Banjul, the Gambia. He spent part of his Quranic studies in the Gambia and another part in Casamance, Senegal. He worked as a Quranic teacher for years. During those times, he spent ten years researching  healing methods based on African medicine and Quranic methods of healing. He learnt the elders\u2019 methods of healing based on plants and Islamic panacea, which helped him understand and practice many of them. He serves now as a Mandinka Ajami writer, poet, singer, and healer with a focus on plants and Islamic panacea.  He has written on different topics related to culture, moral values, and African cultural rules. In this conversation, Ousman Kijera talks about how to write and recite Mandinka poems.<\/td><\/tr>
Language<\/td>Mandinka<\/td><\/tr>
Script<\/td>Mandinka Ajami<\/td><\/tr>
Location<\/td>Jeeda Kayrakunda, Birikama, The Gambia<\/td><\/tr>
Pedagogical content\/application<\/td>Includes relevant linguistic, stylistic and cultural skills as identified in our assessment guidebook\/ ACTFL guidelines<\/td><\/tr>
Access condition and copyright<\/td>These materials are subject to copyright and are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 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).<\/td><\/tr>
Contributors<\/td>Fallou Ngom, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Bala Saho, Ablaye Diakite, Mamadou Aw Ndiaye, Ousmane Cisse, Alison Parker, and Frank Antonelli.<\/td><\/tr>
Required citation information<\/td>Fallou Ngom (PI), Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Bala Saho, Mamadou Aw Ndiaye, Ousmane Cisse, Ablaye Diakite, and other contributors. 2022. \u201cConversation with Ousman Kijera 1.\u201d https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/mandinka\/mandinka-unit-4\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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