Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diop, a Muslim Senegalese educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, teaches about French-educated West African authors writing in countries where more than half the population relies on oral tradition and does not speak French...
Historically the hub of French colonial activity, Dakar was a mix of modernity and tradition during Diop's childhood. He says he did not question the impact of Western cultures on African tradition until he was older...
...father wore African garb, attended mosque regularly and practiced polygamy, which was valued in Wolof society. He had three wives and 14 children. Diop says it was like having three mothers and he did not consider his full siblings any different from his half siblings...
...remembers that during his childhood, storytellers, or "griots," would spend afternoons with his family, reciting tales from the past as they strummed the "xalam," a traditional African lute...
...hope that I communicate the value ofrigorous social science research to helpilluminate important social processes and issuesthat confront us all," he writes. "[I hope] thatstudents are inspired to think in new and evermore creative ways about the African Americanexperience...