Cheikh Ibrahima Solly Manuscripts Collection

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/37617

Images of Cheikh Ibrahima Solly and the community of Guiringo (Ziguinchor)

Ngom, Ibrahima (2018-10-04)

Images of manuscript owner Cheikh Ibrahima Solly and the community of Guiringo, Ziguinchor, Senegal, for the manuscript digitization work done in December 2018.
Ramuloo: Divination

Unknown

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). ...
Yaa Rabbi Kanaŋ Tuŋ n-Faŋ Bulu: My God, Don't Leave us by Ourselves (a poem by Sitokoto Dabo)

Dabo, Sitokoto

The manuscript is a copy of a devotional Mandinka Ajami poem authored by Arfang Sitokoto Dabo, also known as Ababacar Dabo, the most famous Mandinka Ajami poet of Senegambia.