The collection includes a popular divination manual and a poem by the most famous Mandinka Ajami poet called Sitokoto Dabo. Extent and format of original material: 2 files.
Transliterated title: Ramuloo. The manuscript is a recent copy of a 19th-century divination manual written in Mandinka Ajami. Divination is popular in Muslim Africa. It is known in Senegambian Mandinka communities as Ramuloo (from Arabic: Khatt al-Raml). Muslim religious leaders regularly offer...
My God, Don't Leave us by Ourselves (a poem by Sitookoto Dabo)
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Transliterated title: Yaa Rabbi Kanaŋ Tuŋ n-Faŋ Bulu. The manuscript is a copy of a devotional Mandinka Ajami poem authored by Arfang Sitkoto Dabo, also known as Ababacar Dabo, the most famous Mandinka Ajami poet of Senegambia. Custodial history: The owner copied it from his colleague Mamadou ...