Ngom Delivers African Studies Review Distinguished Lecture at ASA Annual Meeting
Fallou Ngom, Director of the African Studies Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, delivered the African Studies Review Distinguished Lecture at the African Studies Association annual meeting held in Boston from November 21-23, 2019.
Ngom delivered a lecture emphasizing the importance written sources for exploring African history and society.
“We are excluding millions of people from reflecting on their own lives and communities through our limited definition of literacy,” Ngom said. “This needs to change.”
So happy to hear my friend and colleague Fallou Ngom talk about the importance of written sources for exploring African history and society. pic.twitter.com/qaUAgXxzBj
— Timothy Longman (@Timlongman) November 22, 2019
Dr. Fallou Ngom’s current research interests include the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the Africanization of Islam, and Ajami literatures—records of West African languages written in Arabic script. He hopes to help train the first generation of American scholars to have direct access into the wealth of knowledge still buried in West African Ajami literatures, and the historical, cultural, and religious heritage that has found expression in this manner.