theories for "Senegal" abound. A popular one, first proposed by Fr. David Boilat (1853), was that "Senegal" comes from the Wolof phrase sunu gaal, meaning...
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English as Jollof rice. The origins of the Wolof people are obscure, states David Gamble, a professor of anthropology and African studies specializing in...
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205-208. Magil 1984, pp. 154-157. Boilat, David, abbé (1814—1901) Oxford Reference. Accessed July 23 2024. Boilat, David (1858). Grammaire de la Langue Woloffe...
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Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké Alfred-Amédée Dodds Jean-Baptiste Labat, Abbé David Boilat, Daniel Brattier, the fathers Michel Adanson, naturalist Louis Faidherbe...
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pp. 38–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1581013. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020. David C. Conrad (2009). Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay...
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An 1853 painting of a Tukulor man and woman (by David Boilat)....
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Tukulor, Songhay, Dogon, Senufo, Minianka, Moors, and Tuareg." Phillips, David J. (2001). Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World. William...
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Benoist et Abdoulaye Camara, op. cit., pp. 15 and 139. (in French) Abbé David Boilat, « Notice sur Tanguegueth ou Rufisque », Esquisses sénégalaises, Karthala...
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Map of the ethnic groups of Senegal drawn by David Boilat (1853)...
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anthropologist and 1929 Pulitzer Prize winner, in New York City (d. 1963) Died: David Boilat, 87, French Roman Catholic priest, ethnographer, artist and educator...
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official documents between Waalo and France. Immortalized in a sketch by David Boilat, she is one of the very few Senegambian precolonial nobles depicted visually...
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Map of the ethnic groups of Senegal drawn by David Boilat (1853)...
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proto-Senegalese literature arose during the mid 19th century with the works of David Abbé Boilat, who produced written ethnographic literature which supported French...
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Sine-Saloum, 1847 - 1914, Edinburgh University Press, 1968, p. XV. Boilat, David: Esquisses sénégalaises, Bertrand, 1853, p. 145. Diouf, "Chronique du...
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religion Joof family Kingdom of Saloum Kingdom of Baol Boilat, David (The Father David Boilat), who was in Joal in 1850 met King Ama Diouf whom he portrays...
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Ndoffene, because Joal was a major commercial centre as attested to by David Boilat in "Esquisses Sénégalaises" (1853). The French conquest of Joal was a...
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Bulletin de l'Ifan, Tome 34, Série B, n° 4, 1972. pp 772-774 (pp 47-49) David Boilat. Esquisses Sénégalaises, Bertrand, 1853, p. 145. (Paris, Karthala, 1984)...
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largest ethnic group in Senegal. In his Sketches of Senegal (1853), Abbé Boilat described them as "the most beautiful black people... tall and beautiful...
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investigation into claims of precognition was published by the missionary Fr. P. Boilat in 1883. He claimed to have put an unspoken question to an African witch-doctor...
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Pulaar language such as Fula and Toucouleur people]. According to historian David Galvan, "The oral historical record, written accounts by early Arab and...
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Noirot, Ernest. Papiers Ernest Noiro, 1881–1909. Noirot, Ernest; Boilat, P.-David (2007). L'explorateur, le photographe et la missionnaire: les carnets...
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