Professor Fallou Ngom to join the Panel Discussion on Languages and Archives in Knowledge Production About Africa, March 3, 2024
Fallou Ngom is Professor of Anthropology and former Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University. His research interests include the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the adaptations of Islam in Africa, and Ajami literatures (records of African languages written in Arabic script). He seeks to understand the knowledge buried in African Ajami literatures and the historical, social, cultural, and religious heritage that has found expression in this manner. He has held Fulbright, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships. His research has been supported by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the US Department of Education. His work has appeared in African Studies Review, History Compass, Islamic Africa, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Language Variation and Change, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language. His book, Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridyya (Oxford University Press, 2016), won the 2017 Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the best book in African studies.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
5 PM Nigeria
10 AM Austin
Register and Watch:
https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/Languages
Join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81714206181
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