African Languages, Literatures, and Postcolonial Modernity

Samba Camara is a teaching assistant professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has published articles and book chapters on Senegalese popular music, literature, and West African Muslim modernity. He is the Co-Principal Investigator of a major manuscript project, funded by the British Library, and which digitized over 6,000 pages of endangered Pulaar literature.Mohamed Mwamzandi holds a PhD in linguistics and is currently a teaching associate professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Mohamed has multidimensional teaching and research interests in linguistics, African literature and religious extremism. He is the Co-Principal Investigator of a major digitization grant awarded by the Endangered Archive Program, British Library that created a digital repository of endangered Pulaar Islamic texts in Senegal and Mali.