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Biography of Ahmadu Bamba
No full textCe manuscrit est une biographie détaillant la vie du soufi sénégalais Ahmdu Bamba Mbacke. Ahmadou Bamba était un saint soufi charismatique qui a fondé les Frères musulmans appelés Muridiyya. Le manuscrit fait partie d'une série de biographies que l'auteur a écrites sur les dirigeants islamiques en Afrique de l'Ouest.This manuscript is a biography detailing the life of Senegalese Sufi Ahmdu Bamba Mbacke. Ahmadou Bamba was a charismatic Sufi saint who founded the Muslim Brotherhood called Muridiyya. The manuscript is one of a series of biographies that the author has written about Islamic leaders in West Africa
Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba: a peacemaker for our time
No full textI first heard about Ahmadou Bamba (ca. 1850-1927) thirty-two years ago through the 9-part BBC television series titled The Africans: A Triple Heritage presented by the doyen of Africa and Islam studies, the late Professor Ali Mazrui. The series, which was produced in 1986 was also published in the form of a book. And the name of Ahmadu Bamba has remained in my mind until today. I always wanted to learn more about him. Thanks to Michelle Kimball for this excellent book on Ahmadou Bamba, it is one of the few works on Bamba. I have learned a lot from it, so my hearty congratulations to the author. The good thing about the book is that its chapters are short, crisp and well written, not drowning the reader into a collapsing sleep
Ahmadu Bamba
No full textThe mid-nineteenth century was an era when the French colonial administration was consolidating its control over colonies in French West Africa. Having witnessed armed resistance movements from non-Muslim and Muslim leaders in the region, the French administration was suspicious of popular leaders who did not support the colonial agenda. Some were killed and others were arrested, exiled, or put under house arrests in order to destroy their movements. Amadu Bamba (1853-1927) was one of the Muslim leaders the French administration regarded as a threat to colonial rule. Because he did not share the position of local Muslim leaders who allied with the Wolof ruling nobility that he regarded as unjust, Bamba founded a new Sufi movement that sought to provide the masses an ethics-centered Islamic education. His conflict with the Muslim leaders and Wolof aristocratic rulers exacerbated his tension with French administrators who saw him as an imminent threat. As a result, Bamba was arrested and exiled in Gabon (1895-1902) and Mauritania (1903-1907), and was kept under house arrest in Ceyeen-Jolof (1907-1912) and Diourbel (1912-1927). The exile and arrests, which were designed to destroy his movement, did not work as his Murīdiyya order has become one of Senegal’s most culturally, economic, and politically powerful movements with committed members spread around the world. His legacy endures. He was a prolific writer and has left an impressive corpus of Arabic texts that continue to guide his followers around the world. His senior disciples who translated his ethos to the broader Wolof audiences using Wolofal or Wolof ʿAjamī (Wolof written with the Arabic script) have also left a rich corpus of primary sources that capture the history, traditions, and doctrine of the Murīdiyya from Murīd perspectives. Unfortunately, these sources remain largely inaccessible to academics.First author draf
Barbus teugelsi Bamba, Vreven & Snoeks, 2011, new species
No full textBarbus teugelsi new species (Fig. 8; Tables 1–4) Holotype. MNHN 2010 -0977, (58.9 mm SL), Guinea; Little Scarcies basin, Mongo River in Marela near the bridge on the road Faranah-Mamou, (10 ° 06’ N, 11 ° 24 ’ W), G.G. Teugels, May 1987. Paratypes. MNHN 2010 -0978, (2; 30.5–37.6 mm SL), same collecting data as holotype. MNHN 2010 -0979, (1; 74.4 mm SL), same collecting data as holotype. MNHN 2010 -0980, (9; 35.6–106.5 mm SL) Guinea; Little Scarcies basin, Mongo River in Marela, C. Lévêque, Feb. 1986. MRAC B 0-26 -P-0001, (1; 32 mm SL), same collecting data as holotype. MRAC B 0-26 -P-0002-0004, (3; 40.7–95.9 mm SL) Guinea; Little Scarcies basin, Mongo River in Marela, C. Lévêque, Feb. 1986. Additional material (non types). MNHN 2010 -0981, (3; 63.5–94.9 mm SL), same collecting data as holotype. MNHN 1991 - 166, (5; 73.6–98.1 mm SL), same collecting data as holotype. Diagnosis. Within West Africa, Barbus teugelsi sp. nov. is distinguished from all other small African ‘Barbus’ by the following unique combination of characters: last simple dorsal-fin ray smooth on hind margin (vs. denticulate on hind margin in ‘B.’ cadenati, ‘B.’ carcharhinoides, ‘B.’ dialonensis and ‘B.’ guineensis); two long barbels (vs. no barbels in ‘B.’ anema, ‘B.’ clauseni, ‘B.’ pumilus and ‘B.’ salessei and single pair of very short barbels in ‘B.’ pobeguini); no black spot on dorsal fin (vs. black spot on dorsal fin in ‘B.’ aboinensis, ‘B.’ callipterus ‘B.’ macrops and ‘B.’ raimbaulti); 3.5 scales between dorsal-fin base and lateral line and 21 to 24 lateral line scales (vs. higher scale numbers: 4.5 to 5.5 and 27 to 30 in ‘B.’ atakorensis, ‘B.’ bagbwensis, ‘B.’ bigornei, ‘B.’ boboi, ‘B.’ chlorotaenia, ‘B.’ lauzanei, ‘B.’ nigeriensis and ‘B.’ subinensis); the presence of a black mid-lateral band (vs. no mid-lateral band or one to five well defined spots on the flanks in, ‘B.’ aliciae, ‘B.’ anniae, ‘B.’ baudoni, ‘B.’ camptacanthus, ‘B.’ eburneensis‘B.’ foutensis, ‘B.’ huguenyi, ‘B.’ liberiensis, ‘B.’ macinensis, ‘B.’ perince, ‘B.’ stigmatopygus, ‘B.’ sublineatus, ‘B.’ sylvaticus, ‘B.’ tiekoroi, ‘B.’ traorei, ‘B.’ trispiloides, ‘B.’ trispilos and ‘B.’ walkeri); 12 scales around caudal peduncle (vs. 10 or less in ‘B.’ bawkuensis, ‘B.’ ditinensis, ‘B.’ guildi, ‘B.’ inaequalis, ‘B.’ leonensis, ‘B.’ melanotaenia, ‘B.’ punctitaeniatus and ‘B.’ zalbiensis); the absence of a striped pattern on the mid-dorsal parts (present in ‘B.’ nikoloensis). Although the new species is very similar in general habitus to ‘B.’ ablabes and ‘B.’ parablabes, it can be distinguished from both species by its longer barbels 3 / 5 (vs. 2 / 3), poorly developed or absent cephalic sensory canals (vs. well developed cephalic sensory canals) and a low number of gill rakers, 3–6 (vs. 7–12 and 7–9). The comparison with species other than ‘B.’ ablabes, ‘B.’ bigornei and ‘B.’ parablabes is mainly based on literature data, i.e., Lévêque et al. (1990), Paugy et al. (2003) and the original description of the above mentioned species. Description: Meristics and morphometrics are given respectively in Table 1 and Table 4. Barbus teugelsi is a medium-sized species (maximum size observed: 98.0 mm SL) with a straight dorsal profile. Head pointed, mouth sub-terminal. First simple dorsal-fin ray only slightly ossified on its proximal half. Lateral line complete, situated below and tangent to the dark longitudinal band on the body above the pelvic fin, but continuing on the longitudinal band above the anal fin. Lateral line scales smaller on caudal peduncle than below dorsal fin. Cephalic sensory canals are hardly visible or even absent. Total gill rakers number on the first gill arch is low (3–6). Two unequal pairs of barbels, the anterior is reaching up to the centre of eye and the posterior extending beyond hind margin of eye. Preserved specimens have dark brown dorsal parts and flanks with a lighter belly. There is a well-marked black longitudinal band from snout to caudal-fin. The lateral-line scales as well as those on the dorsal parts and in the first series below the lateral line are marked with small crescent-shaped patches of melanophores, most prominent on the lateral line and the dorsum. The longitudinal band is relatively wide below the dorsal fin, i.e., about half a (large) scale high, and gradually narrows (i.e., becomes about one (small) scale high on the caudal peduncle). Paired and unpaired fins whitish and transparent. Geographical distribution. Barbus teugelsi sp. nov. is currently only known from the type locality, the Mongo River, a left bank affluent of the Little Scarcies, at Marela close to the bridge on the road between Faranah and Mamou (Guinea) (Fig. 9). Etymology. The new species is named after and dedicated to Prof. Dr. Guy G. Teugels (1954–2003), an outstanding ichthyologist who introduced the first and second author to fish taxonomy and greatly contributed to the knowledge of the African fishes over the last twenty years.Published as part of Bamba, Mamadou, Vreven, Emmanuel J. & Snoeks, Jos, 2011, Description of Barbus teugelsi sp. nov. (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Little Scarcies basin in Guinea, Africa, pp. 48-65 in Zootaxa 2998 on pages 60-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20456
PrivacyGrid: Supporting Anonymous Location Queries in Mobile Environments
No full textWe present PRIVACYGRID − a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PRIVACYGRID framework offers three unique capabilities. First, we provide a location privacy preference profile model, called location P3P, which allows mobile users to explicitly define their preferred location privacy requirements in terms of both location hiding measures (e.g., location k-anonymity and location l-diversity) and location service quality measures (e.g., maximum spatial resolution and maximum temporal resolution). Second, we develop three fast and effective location cloaking algorithms for providing location k-anonymity and location l-diversity in a mobile environment. The Quad Grid cloaking algorithm is fast but has lower anonymization success rate. The dynamic bottom-up or top-down grid cloaking algorithms provide much higher anonymization success rate and yet are efficient in terms of both time complexity and maintenance cost. Finally, we discuss a hybrid approach that combines the topdown and bottom-up search of location cloaking regions to further lower the average anonymization time. In addition, we argue for incorporating temporal cloaking into the location cloaking process to further increase the success rate of location anonymization. We also discuss the PRIVACYGRID mechanisms for anonymous support of range queries. Our experimental evaluation shows that the PRIVACYGRID approach can provide optimal location anonymity as defined by per user location P3P without introducing significant performance penalties
Images of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Drame and of the community of Sunna-Karantaba
No full textFor technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. 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 ([email protected]). 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 ([email protected]).Biography: Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Drame was born and raised in Sunna-Karantaba in the region of Sedhiou, where he started his Islamic education. He left his hometown when he was 16 years old to pursue his advanced studies in The Gambia, Dakar, Louga (Cokki) and Mauritania. After his studies in 2019, he returned home. He currently serves as an Arabic teacher in the public French secondary school in Kolda, Senegal.Images of manuscript owner Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Drame (right) and of the community of Sunna-Karantaba, Sedhiou, Senegal, for the manuscript digitization work done in September 2018
O ATRAVESSAMENTO DA PERSONAGEM “VELHA DA HISTÓRIA” DO ROMANCE CORDA BAMBA PELA DESUMANIZAÇÃO EM MÍDIAS DISTINTAS
No full textThis article discusses the dehumanization of the character “A Velha da História”, in the Romance Corda Bamba by the author Lygia Bojunga (2021[1979) and in the cinematographic narrative by Eduardo Goldenstein (2012), homonymous to this one. Observing the influence of the literary text on other media/arts, in this case the cinematographic narrative, and how each of the media move elements and languages to build on the characters, and therefore produce varied feelings and emotions in the readers/spectators; in the present case, as mentioned above, dehumanization. For this purpose, the study is based on bibliographical research, adopting Comparative Literature as a benchmark for the construction of data and analyses. Still resorting to the studies of Brait (1985); Hutcheon (2011); Stam (2006); Rule (2014). With the study it is possible to prove the thesis that the old character of the story is crossed by dehumanization in both media and how this dehumanization is denounced in both supports.Neste artigo se discute a desumanização da personagem “A Velha da História”, no Romance Corda Bamba da autora Lygia Bojunga (2021[1979) e na narrativa cinematográfica de Eduardo Goldenstein (2012), homônima a esta. Observando a influência do texto literário sobre outras mídias/artes, neste caso a narrativa cinematográfica, e como cada um dos meios movimentam elementos e linguagens para construir nas personagens, e por conseguinte produzir nos leitores/espectadores sentimentos e emoções variadas; no caso em tela, conforme supramencionado, a desumanização. Para tanto, o estudo se realiza a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, adotando a Literatura Comparada enquanto balizador para construção de dados e análises. Recorrendo ainda, aos estudos de Brait (1985); Hutcheon (2011); Stam (2006); Rego (2014). Com o estudo se pode comprovar a tese de que a personagem velha da história é atravessada pela desumanização nas duas mídias e como essa desumanização é denunciada nos dois suportes. 
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