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Babacar Sedikh Diouf or Babacar Sédikh Diouf (Srr. Babakar Sidiix JUUF,[1] b. 1928[2][3]) is a Senegalese historian, author, researcher, Pan-Africanist and former teacher, who has written extensively about the history and culture of Senegal, Africa, and that of the Serer ethnic group to which he belong.[4]
Diouf sometimes write by the pen name Babacar Sedikh Diouf. Many of his works are unpublished but cited by African, Caribbean and Western scholars who've interacted with him over the years. Some of these include gender politics writers Louise Langevin, Fatou Kiné Camara and Jeremy I. Levitt;[5][6][7] historian Mamadou Diouf;[8] an anthropologist Henry Gravrand.[9]
Diouf usually writes in French but has also written in Serer. An 80 -page short biography of the of 19th century Serer King of Sine — Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof, titled: O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas), 1853-1871, PAPF (1987) was written in Serer.[10]
Pan Africanism
In 2004, Diouf was invited by the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire to give a speech at the cultural and scientific institute's conference—held at the University of Mutants in Gorée. In that conference, Diouf spoke out against globalization, and called for a Pan-African approach and the need to increase solidarity among African countries.[4]
Selection of works
The following are a selection of Diouf's works:
- O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas), 1853-1871 by Babacar Sedikh Diouf, PAPF (1987)[3]
- L'esprit de l'ecole nouvelle by Babacar Sedikh Diouf, (1988)[3]
- Gradation modification effects on engineering performance of reclaimed asphalt pavement for use as roadway base by Babacar Sedikh Diouf, M.S. Florida Institute of Technology (2011) - (thesis)[3]
- Les mégalithes, monuments funéraires ou sanctuaires d'initiation?, by Babacar Sedikh Diouf, Age d'or du Sénégal. Pages 53-64. (article)[3]
References
- ^ Diouf, Babacar Sedikh, O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas), 1853-1871, PAPF (1987), pp. 3-4
- ^ Babacar Sedikh Diouf's body of works: Diouf, Babacar Sedikh, O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas), 1853-1871 (PAPF, 1987) [in] Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) [in] CARLI I-Share [1] (retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ a b c d e Overview of Babacar Sedikh Diouf's works [in] WorldCat [2](retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ a b Le Soleil (Senegal) [in] AllAfrica.com, Afrique: Babacar Sédikh Diouf, conférencier : « Face à une mondialisation, il faut renouveler l'idéal panafricain » (November 4, 2004) by Madeline Malhaire [3] (retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ Diouf, Babacar Sedikh « La dimension genre dans le vivre ensemble africain » [in] Langevin, Louise, Rapports sociaux de sexe-genre et droit: repenser le droit, Archives contemporaines (2008), p. 96, ISBN 9782914610797 [4] (retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ Camara, F. (2015). African Women and the Gender Equality Regime in Africa: From Patriarchy to Parity. In J. Levitt (Ed.), Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions (pp. 61-87). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [5] (retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ Diouf, Babacar Sedikh, La dimension genre dans le 'vivre ensemble' africain [in] Levitt, Jeremy I., Black Women and International Law, Cambridge University Press (2015), p. 75, ISBN 9781107021303 [6] (retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ Diouf, Mamadou, Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal, Columbia University Press (2013), p. 172 ISBN 9780231162630 [7] (retrieved February, 8 2020)
- ^ Gravrand, Henry, La civilisation sereer: Pangool, Nouvelles Editions africaines du Sénégal (1990), p. 56, ISBN 9782723610551
- ^ Diouf, Babacar Sedikh, O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas), 1853-1871, PAPF (1987) [in] WorldCat [8] (retrieved February, 8 2020)