Sow, Alfâ Ibrâhîm
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Name (Latin)
Sow, Alfâ Ibrâhîm
Other forms of name
Soo, Alfa I
Soo, Alfa Ibrahiim
Sow, Alfa Ibrahima
Sow, Alpha I
Sow, Alpha Ibrahim
Sow, Alpha Ibrahima
Soo, Alfaa Ibraahiim
Sow, I. (Ibrâhîm)
Sow, Alpha I. (Alpha Ibrâhîm)
Date of birth
1933
Date of death
2005-01-21
Associated country
France
Guinea
Field of activity
African literature
Fula language
Fula literature
Futa Jallon--History
Manuscripts, Ajami
fula language writing
Occupation
Authors
Language teachers
Literature teachers
Translators
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African Online Digital Library, An introduction to the Boubacar Barry Collection, viewed Dec. 23, 2014(Alfa Ibrahima Sow, a Guinean scholar living in France, has given visibility to the "classical" literature developed in the Labe area, on the northern side of the Futa Jalon near Senegal and Guinea-Bissau)
- Baumgard, Ursula. Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) literature. In: A companion to folklore, 2012, viewed online Dec. 23, 2014:page 352 (Alpha Ibrahima Sow, who left us on Jan. 21, 2005; pioneer in refining the writing and publication of Fulani literature; he remained for his whole university career at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) until his retirement in 1992; he was an initiator of the Bamako conference of April-May 1966 under UNESCO auspices, on the transcription of African languages, a reference point for Fulani orthography today; he set up the publishing house Nubia; his scholarly work incorporated texts in Ajami [Arabic script used for non-Arabic languages] from Futa Jalon)
- Historical dictionary of Guinea, 5th ed., 2014, viewed online Dec. 23, 2014:pages 273-274 (Sow, Alfâ Ibrâhîm (1933-2005); language and literature professor in Paris and prolific author; b. in Labé; educated at École normale of Kankan, the Lycée classique of Conakry, and Univ. of Dakar, then INALCO, Sorbonne, in Paris; taught Fulani language and African literature; author of books incl. La femme, la vache, la foi (1966), Chroniques et récits du Fouta Djallon (1969), Dictionnaire élémentaire Fulfulde-français-anglais (1971), Langues et politiques en Afrique Noire (1977), etc.; upon retiring he returned to Guinea in 1995, joined the pro-democracy movement, and became founding leader of the Union des forces démocratiques (UFD); d. in Conakry)
- IdRef, November 9, 2020(Sow, Alpha Ibrahim (1933?-2005); variants Sow, Alfa Ibrahim; Sow, Alfa I.; Soo, Alfa Ibrahiim; Soo, Alfa I.; language of expression: French; country: Guinea; specialist in Peul language and culture; director of Editions Nubia, Paris (as of 1988); source cited, lemonde.fr, 2005-01-27: Alfa Sow long taught the Pulaar (Peul) language at the Institut des languages orientales, Paris; he was an influential member of FEANF (Fédération des étudiants d'Afrique noire en France))
- Kane, Ousmane Oumar. Beyond Timbuktu, 2016, viewed online November 9, 2020:page 33 (Alpha Ibrahim Sow; translator of the Pulaar Ajami didactic poem written by Tierno Mouhammadou Samba Mombeya (1765-1850) in the 19th century, Oogirde Malal (Vein of Eternal Happiness))
- Mombéyâ, Tierno Mouhammadou-Samba. Le filon du bonheur éternel, 1971:title page (édité par Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow)
- Wikipedia, French version, December 29, 2024(Alfa Ibrahima Sow; also Alpha Ibrahima Sow; born 8 October 1934 in Tougué, French Guinea; died 21 January 2005 in Conakry; in 1975 he and his mentor Amadou Hampâté Bâ received the prix de la langue-française from the Académie Française; taught at INALCO until 1992; in 1998 he was [presidential] campaign director for Alpha Condé)
- His Introduction to African culture, c1979:t.p. (Alpha I. Sow)