{"id":479,"date":"2021-04-09T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:14:28","slug":"wolof-unit-6a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/wolof\/wolof-unit-6a\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 6A: Magatte Sylla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title<\/td>Conversation with Magatte Sylla <\/td><\/tr>
Interviewer<\/td>Fallou Ngom and Ablaye Diakite<\/td><\/tr>
Subject<\/td>Importance of Ajami literature, gender, education <\/td><\/tr>
Content<\/td>Magatte Sylla (M\u00e0ggat Silla in the standard Wolof Latin script spelling) was born and raised in 1975 in Dakar, Senegal. She attended both Quranic and French schools in Dakar. She was a student of the Martin Luther King Middle School in Dakar, and also attended a Quranic school. Later, she attended the John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School in Dakar and then went on to Gaston Berger University where she studied for four years. In this interview, Mrs. Sylla shares with us her educational and professional trajectory and discusses her work as an employee of the Senegalese Ministry of Education. She also reflects on the significance of Ajami literature, and talks about the issues that she is researching for her Ph.D. dissertation, which is focused on Wolof Ajami literature and on women\u2019s issues and role in Senegalese society. Mrs. Sylla also discusses the work of S\u00ebri\u00f1 Muusaa Ka, a famous Wolof Ajami poet, that has been significant in her research. She discusses the strategies she is using to research the traditions of her native people, and reflects on the importance of learning about the work and lives of the influential elders of the past.<\/td><\/tr>
Language<\/td>Wolof<\/td><\/tr>
Script<\/td>Wolof Ajami (locally called Wolofal)<\/td><\/tr>
Location<\/td>Mbour, Senegal<\/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, Ablaye Diakite, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Elhadji Djibril Diagne, Gana Ndiaye, Alison Parker, and Frank Antonelli.<\/td><\/tr>
Required citation information<\/td>Fallou Ngom (PI), Ablaye Diakite, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Elhadji Djibril Diagne, and other contributors. 2023. \u201cConversation with Magatte Sylla.\u201d https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ria\/wolof\/wolof-unit-6a\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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