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...Strike at Europe's Heart "Terrorism is a virus that eats deep into our life. It cuts across all the lines of nationality, race, religion and social background." Agboola Kehinde Lateef Lagos, Nigeria...
...Foreign Services officer who, with his wife, transposed a family of two sons and two daughters from Asia to Europe to Africa and back. “We were the first Americans to drive by land from the Republic of Niger to Timbuktu,” recalls LaTeef. “We got lost along the way and arrived after three days of traveling, only to run straight into a family of tourists from New York.” Her four years in Cambridge were the longest LaTeef had ever spent living in one place...
...LaTeef became a social anthropology concentrator at the beginning of her junior year. With a grant from the department, she went to Senegal to conduct thesis research on the effects of technological development on Senegalese women’s lives. She snuck in a side trip to visit friends she had made during her family’s earlier three-year stint in the Republic of Niger. It was there that she heard her stories, from the mouth of a woman griot (storyteller) who sat under the shade of a 30-foot-wide acacia tree...
...LaTeef spoke no Zarma and the woman spoke nothing else, but a friend stood and translated while LaTeef scribbled furiously into the notebook she always carried around. “A griot is more than just a performer. She’s the keeper of old words, the library of a village,” says LaTeef. As an anthropologist, LaTeef was fascinated. Griots have particular importance in a society such as the Zarma’s, which has a literacy rate of only 10 percent. LaTeef was fascinated by the beauty of the oral tradition and the sheer sound...
...Folk tales are so wonderful because they really bridge cultures; they instruct as well as entertain. From the furthest corner of the globe, everything is accessible,” pronounces LaTeef...