One of the main sites about the scripture and movement of N'ko, scripture invented by Guinean Solomana Kante in 1949 for the Mande languages. In order to view the site cirrectly, you have to download some special fonts. The site is a little bit chaotic. The following links are of special interest: "Kafa Lu Serede" (an extensiv list of over 100 books in N'ko), "Kanté" (Songs of Souleymane Kanté and other texts in French and English, among others from N'ko researcher Diane Oyler), "Écriture N'ko" and "Contacts" (contacts to representatives all over the world). The author of the site, Diané, is a professor for N'ko at the University of Al-Azhar in Cairo since 2003. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Homepage of the Cultural Organisation of Soninke in Egypt, probably mainly (male) students. The site is entirely written in Soninke, some parts are translated into French and English bit by bit. You will find information about the culture, history, society and language of the Soninke, information is also given on further Soninke associations. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Website with extensive information about the Soninke who come from Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and Gambia. Under "Autres > Téléchargements" you will find some booklets in Soninke and articles about Soninke for downlnload. Furthermore, you can fins information about their society, culture, history language (with gossary, one thesis, excerpts from books in Soninke, a "teach-Yourself-Soninke" online book, ...), current news in French and Soninké and much more. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Homepage of Roderic Knight, Professor of Ethnomusicology at Oberlin College Conservatory. You will find some Infos on Gambian Kora players and drummers, audio samples, the "Guide to the Ethnomusicology LP Collection in the Oberlin College Conservatory Library" and further links. [editors ilissAfrica]
Homepage of a Gambian Griot school. You will find information about the school itself, about its founder, the griot Dembo Jobarteh and some simple information about griot songs and music, furthermore audio and video samples. [editors ilissAfrica]
AMMS is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic and Ajami manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). It subsequently has been used to catalogue seven other West African collections including the manuscript libraries at the Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, Northwestern University, and the Centre Ahmad Baba in Timbuktu. Currently (during 2008-09) print catalogues from West Africa published by al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation are being added to it.
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ALMA offers more than 30 books in West African languages mainly from Senegal, Guinea and Mali (Wolof, Pulaar, Fulfulde, Mandinka, Bambara, Dyula, Criol). There are little biographies for certain authors or associations, sometimes even with a picture. [éditors ilissAfrica]
Small online library with books in Soninke (Mali, West Africa in general) to read online or to download in different formats. Furthermore, you will find a dictionary Soninke-French-English to be consulted online or downloaded. [editors ilissAfrica]
This is a web site intended to serve as a resource for the study of African epics. The core of the site is a listing of available published epic texts divided by language group and by performer, with brief performance data and bibliographic references. [according to site editor's information]
Wikipedia site in Fulfulde / Pulaar - Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad. At present (17.01.08), there are 28 articles. [editors ilissAfrica]