Daffe, Ansou (owner)2019-09-052019-09-05Ngom, Fallou, Castro, Eleni, & Diakité, Ablaye. (2018). African Ajami Library: EAP 1042. Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27112https://hdl.handle.net/2144/37689The entire manuscript is available for download as a PDF file(s). Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact open-help@bu.edu. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Fallou Ngom (Pricipal Investigator; Director, African Studies Center), Ablaye Diakité (Local Project Manager), Mr. Ibrahima Yaffa (General Field Facilitator), and Ibrahima Ngom (photographer). Technical Team: Professor Fallou Ngom (Principle Investigator, Project Director and former Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). This collection of Mandinka Ajami materials is copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. This is a joint project between BU and the West African Research Center (WARC), funded by the British Library/Arcadia Endangered Archives Programme. Access Condition and Copyright: 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 fully cited using the information below. For use, distribution or reproduction beyond these terms, contact Professor Fallou Ngom (fngom@bu.edu). Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Ngom, Fallou, Castro, Eleni, & Diakité, Ablaye. (2018). African Ajami Library: EAP 1042. Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27112. For Inquiries: please contact Professor Fallou Ngom (fngom@bu.edu). For technical assistance, please contact open-help@bu.edu.Provenance / Custodial history: The manuscript owner kept the notes and letters in Mandinka Ajami that he received from friends and relatives.The collection contains short notes and letters written by family members in Mandinka Ajami. The first letter is sent from Guinea-Bissau by Sire Mbaa Daffe, who is the aunt of the owner, to greet him and to request that her children be kept together and united. The second letter is from Diabycounda. It is sent by Kang Ntay Diaby, who is the brother of Kang Mamadou Diaby, an important Mandinka religious scholar. The owner of the manuscript received the letter when he was living in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Kang Ntay sent him his prayers and told him that he will never forget about him. He also talked about the relocation of his family from Fanda in the region of Ziguinchor back to Guinea-Bissau when the liberation war of the PAIGC ended. The third letter came from Yankouba Samate who was living in Rufisque at that time. He sent the letter to ask about his family and asked the receiver to talked to his sister, Binta Samate, and to counsel her on the challenges she was facing. The fourth letter came from Kolda. It was sent by Baba Dinding Diahaby who wanted to keep in touch.Unbound manuscript. 7 pages.PapermnkThese 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).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Sedhiou, SenegalManuscriptMandinka LanguageAjami scriptCorrespondencePersonal lettersFamilyGuinea-BissauZiguinchorPAIGCGuinea-Bissau War of IndependenceManuscriptAfrican Studies Center, Boston University