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Tijan Sallah

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Tijan M. Sallah (born March 5, 1958) is a Gambian poet, short story writer, biographer and economist at the World Bank. [1]

84 relations: Abrahamic religions, Animal Farm, Banjul, Basse (Gambia), BBC, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, Cambria Press, Cambridge University Press, Catholic Church in Ireland, Charles Dickens, Chinua Achebe, Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Daily Times of Nigeria, David Streitfeld, Demographics of Mali, Demographics of the Gambia, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Foxfire (magazine), Gareth Griffiths (academic), George Orwell, Gurney Norman, Harlem Renaissance, Hindu, Indian philosophy, Indiana University Press, Instruction in Latin, Irish people, Irrigation, Journal of Modern African Studies, Kerewan (Gambia), Kojo Nnamdi, Kolkata, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, List of poetry collections, List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa, Madrasa, Mandinka people, Master's degree, Matatu (journal), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Netherlands, New England, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, North Carolina A&T State University, NPR, Peter Nazareth, Phillis Wheatley, Postcolonialism, ..., Purushottama Lal, Quran, Rabun County, Georgia, Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, Rosen Publishing, Rural development, Saloum, Sana'a University, Sankore Madrasah, Satellite, Satire, Séréré, Mali, Scott Simon, Senegambia Confederation, Southern United States, Stewart Brown, Sufism, Tanure Ojaide, The Daily Observer, The Gambia, Timbuktu, Toucouleur people, Ufahamu, University of Limoges, Virginia Tech, Wasafiri, West Africa (magazine), William Shakespeare, Wole Soyinka, Wolof people, World Bank, World Literature Today, Writers Workshop, Yemen. Expand index (34 more) »

Abrahamic religions

The Abrahamic religions, also referred to collectively as Abrahamism, are a group of Semitic-originated religious communities of faith that claim descent from the practices of the ancient Israelites and the worship of the God of Abraham.

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.

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Banjul

Banjul, officially the City of Banjul and formerly known as Bathurst, is the capital of The Gambia and is in a division of the same name.

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Basse (Gambia)

Basse is one of eight Local Government Areas in the Gambia.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Berea College

Berea College is a liberal arts work college in the city of Berea, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Berea, Kentucky

Berea is a home rule-class city in Madison County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Cambria Press

Cambria Press is an independent academic publisher based in Amherst, New York.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Catholic Church in Ireland

The Catholic Church in Ireland (Eaglais Chaitliceach na hÉireann) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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Congregation of the Holy Spirit

The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (full title, Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, or in Latin, Congregatio Sancti Spiritus sub tutela Immaculati Cordis Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, and thus abbreviated C.S.Sp.) is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay brothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates.

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Daily Times of Nigeria

The Dailytimes Nigeria is a newspaper with headquarters in Lagos.

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David Streitfeld

David Streitfeld is an American journalist.

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Demographics of Mali

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Mali, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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Demographics of the Gambia

The demographic characteristics of the population of The Gambia are known through national censuses, conducted in ten-year intervals and analyzed by The Gambian Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) since 1963.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography

The Dictionary of Literary Biography is a specialist biographical dictionary dedicated to literature.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Foxfire (magazine)

The Foxfire magazine began in 1966, written and published as a quarterly American magazine by students at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, a private secondary education school located in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Gareth Griffiths (academic)

Gareth Griffiths (Wales, 1943) is Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Gurney Norman

Gurney Norman is an American writer, documentarian, and professor.

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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Indian philosophy

Indian philosophy refers to ancient philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Instruction in Latin

The Latin language is still taught in many parts of the world.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Journal of Modern African Studies

The Journal of Modern African Studies is a quarterly academic journal covering developments in modern African politics and society.

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Kerewan (Gambia)

Kerewan is one of eight Local Government Areas in the Gambia.

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Kojo Nnamdi

Kojo Nnamdi (born January 8, 1945) is an American radio journalist.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Kutztown University or KU) is an American public university located in rural Kutztown, Pennsylvania and is one of fourteen schools that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Pennsylvania Department of Education, NCATE, NLN, CSWE, NASM, and NASAD.

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List of poetry collections

A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook.

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List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa

This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa.

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Madrasa

Madrasa (مدرسة,, pl. مدارس) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion), and whether a school, college, or university.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka (also known as Mandenka, Mandinko, Mandingo, Manding or Malinke) are an African ethnic group with an estimated global population of 11 million (the other three largest ethnic groups in Africa being the unrelated Fula, Hausa and Songhai peoples).

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Matatu (journal)

Matatu- Journal for African Culture and Society is an academic journal on African literatures and societies dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue between literary and cultural studies, historiography, the social sciences, and cultural anthropology.

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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Abū al-Ḥusayn ‘Asākir ad-Dīn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshādh al-Qushayrī an-Naysābūrī (أبو الحسين عساكر الدين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد بن كوشاذ القشيري النيسابوري; after 815 – May 875) or Muslim Nīshāpūrī (مسلم نیشاپوری), commonly known as Imam Muslim, was a Persian Islamic scholar, particularly known as a muhaddith (scholar of hadith).

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian, an economist and the first female Minister of Finance.

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North Carolina A&T State University

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (also known as North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina A&T, N.C. A&T, or simply A&T) is a public, coeducational, historically black, research university located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Peter Nazareth

Peter Nazareth (born 27 April 1940) is a Ugandan-born critic and writer of fiction and drama.

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Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African-American female poet.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

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Purushottama Lal

Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010) commonly known as P. Lal was an Indian poet, essayist, translator, professor and publisher.

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Quran

The Quran (القرآن, literally meaning "the recitation"; also romanized Qur'an or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah).

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Rabun County, Georgia

Rabun County is the northeasternmost county in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School

Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School (informally known as Rabun Gap) is a small, private college preparatory school located in Rabun County, Georgia, United States, in the Appalachian Mountains.

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Rosen Publishing

The Rosen Publishing Group is an American publisher for educational books for readers from ages pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.

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Rural development

Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas.

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Saloum

The Kingdom of Saloum (Serer language: Saluum or Saalum) was a Serer/Wolof kingdom in present-day Senegal. Its kings may have been of Mandinka/Kaabu origin. The capital of Saloum was the city of Kahone. It was a sister kingdom of Sine. Their history, geography and culture were intricately linked and it was common to refer to them as the Sine-Saloum.

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Sana'a University

Sana'a University (Arabic: جامعة صنعــاء) was established in 1970 as the first and the primary university in the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), now the Republic of Yemen (see also Aden University).

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Sankore Madrasah

Sankoré Madrasah, The University of Sankoré, or Sankore Masjid is one of three ancient centers of learning located in Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa.

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Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Séréré, Mali

Séréré is a rural commune of the Cercle of Gourma-Rharous in the Tombouctou Region of Mali.

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Scott Simon

Scott Simon (born March 16, 1952) is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR.

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Senegambia Confederation

Senegambia, officially the Senegambia Confederation, was a loose confederation in the late 20th century between the West African countries of Senegal and its neighbour The Gambia, which is almost completely surrounded by Senegal.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Stewart Brown

Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK) is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

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Sufism

Sufism, or Taṣawwuf (personal noun: ṣūfiyy / ṣūfī, mutaṣawwuf), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism",Martin Lings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second imp. 1999), p.15 "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam",Massington, L., Radtke, B., Chittick, W. C., Jong, F. de, Lewisohn, L., Zarcone, Th., Ernst, C, Aubin, Françoise and J.O. Hunwick, “Taṣawwuf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by: P. Bearman, Th.

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Tanure Ojaide

Tanure Ojaide (born 1948) is a prolific Nigerian poet and writer.

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The Daily Observer

The Daily Observer is a newspaper published in Bakau in Banjul, the Gambia.

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The Gambia

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Timbuktu

Timbuktu, also spelt Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo (Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River.

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Toucouleur people

The Toucouleur people, also called Tukulor or Haalpulaar are a West African ethnic group native to Futa Tooro region of Senegal.

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Ufahamu

Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies is a graduate-student run, peer-reviewed academic journal published at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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University of Limoges

The University of Limoges (Université de Limoges) is a French public research university, based in Limoges.

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Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech, and traditionally known as VPI since 1896, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in Lugano, Switzerland.

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Wasafiri

Wasafiri is a quarterly British literary magazine covering international contemporary writing.

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West Africa (magazine)

West Africa (1917-2005) was a weekly news magazine that was published in London for over 80 years and closed in 2005.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká,; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist.

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Wolof people

The Wolof people are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, The Gambia and southwestern coastal Mauritania.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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World Literature Today

World Literature Today is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published bimonthly at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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Writers Workshop

Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor Purushottama Lal in 1958.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially known as the Republic of Yemen (al-Jumhūriyyah al-Yamaniyyah), is an Arab sovereign state in Western Asia at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.

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