Professor

Affiliations

African Studies Center

Areas of Expertise

African sources of knowledge in non-Roman scripts; Ajami sources in Africa and the diaspora; Islam and grassroots literacies in Africa; sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology

View Professor Ngom’s CV Here – October 2024

About 

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Selected Publications

  • “Ajami Literacies of West Africa,” in Tracing Language Movement in Africa, Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna, editors (Oxford University Press, 2018), 143-164.
  • “West African Manuscripts in Arabic and African Languages and Digital Preservation,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedias: African History, Thomas Spear, editor, June 2017.
  • Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of ʿAjamī and the Murīdiyya (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Courses

  • CAS AN 312 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
  • CAS AN 327 Islam in Africa
  • CAS AN 521 Sociolinguistics
  • CAS AN 524 Language Contact in Africa
  • CAS AN 532 Literacy and Islam in Africa