{"id":465,"date":"2021-04-09T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:10:39","slug":"mandinka-unit-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/mandinka\/mandinka-unit-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 5: Ousman Kijera 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title<\/td>Conversation with Ousman Kijera 2<\/td><\/tr>
Interviewer<\/td>Fallou Ngom, Bala Saho<\/td><\/tr>
Subject<\/td>Defending local Islamic traditions, higher Islamic education, foreign influences in African Islamic culture, scholarly collaboration<\/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 that time, Mr. Kijera spent ten years researching healing methods based on African medicine and Quranic methods of healing. He learned from the elders healing methods based on plants and Islamic medicine, and practiced many of them. He serves now as a Mandinka Ajami writer, poet, singer, and healer with a focus on herbal and Islamic medicine. Mr. Kijera  has written on various topics related to culture, moral values, and African cultural rules. In this interview, Mr. Kijera discusses the dangers of foreign influences to African Islamic culture, and the ways to strengthen and cultivate local knowledge and its transmission. He criticizes his local Muslims who study abroad and return with new religious views, disrespect local Islamic traditions, and create tension in their communities. He calls for respect for the legacy of local elders who cultivated peace, unity, piety, and knowledge, and not conflict and division.<\/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 2.\u201d https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/mandinka\/mandinka-unit-5\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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