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	Wolof people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wolof are an ethnic group found in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania.
		Here, they are a minority, where the Madinka are the majority with 40% of the population, yet Wolof language and culture have a disproportionate influence because of their prevalence in Banjul, The Gambia's capital, where 50% of the population are Wolof.
		Because 80% of Senegal's population speak Wolof, Wolof culture and language have an enormous influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolof_people (371 words)

	Wolof language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania, and it is the native language of the ethnic group of the Wolof people.
		Wolof is the most widely-spoken language in Senegal, spoken not only by members of the Wolof ethnic group (approximately 40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese.
		Wolof dialects may vary between countries (Senegal and the Gambia) and the rural and urban areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolof_language (1809 words)

	Wolof People
		Wolof forefathers migrated west to the coast from Mali following the defeat of the Empire of the Ghana in the 11th century.
		Traditionally, Wolof were ruled by several powerful headmen who were from high ranking lineages based on the length of time that they resided in the area.
		Most Wolof are Muslim, and it was most often the case that Wolof leaders converted to Islam first, before the religion spread to the less powerful members of society.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Wolof.html (498 words)

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		Wolof (Ouolof in the standard French orthography) is the name by which the people refer to themselves, and the label commonly used in scholarly publications.
		First, the Wolof spread from their traditional center in the northwest to the south and southeast of the main Serer area in the Sine-Saloum, and eastward into the western Ferlo and the region of Senegal Oriental.
		Although the bulk of the Wolof, probably 70 to 75 percent, are still rural villagers, the remainder constitute an important element in many of the larger urban centers of Senegal.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7882 (3032 words)

	Wolof at the University of Kansas
		Wolof is the dominant language of the West African country of Senegal, whose capital, Dakar, is the westernmost point on the African continent.
		Approximately four million people speak Wolof as a native language and at least as many speak it as a second language, making for a total of at least eight million speakers.
		Wolof is also spoken in the neighboring countries of Gambia Mauritania, Mali and by Senegalese emigrant groups elsewhere in Africa, Europe and the United States.
	www2.ku.edu /~wolof (188 words)

	THE PEOPLE
		Wolof is the "lingua franca" throughout the country and many people speak Wolof as well as their own mother tongue.
		The people of the Casamance are the most polyglot, some speaking as many as five or six languages in addition to Wolof.
		Today the educated, modernized Wolof dominate the government bureaucracy and all modern sectors of the economy while the peasants remain the backbone of the peanut basin.
	www.lclark.edu /~nicole/SENEGAL/PEOPLE.HTM (1135 words)

	NiiCa - Republic Of The Gambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Wolof Kingdom of Walo was subject to constant raiding by the moors, who had previously converted the nobility among the Wolof to the Muslim religion.
		However the Moslem leaders of different Wolof regions have a measure of political power, since their cooperation is necessary for the enforcement of government politics.
		The Wolof handle the fields with such care that the original plant life quickly returns when the land is left untilled.
	www.niica.on.ca /gambia/wolofpeople.aspx (2175 words)

	YWAM Sahara - Wolof
		The Wolof are the largest people group of Senegal, numbering over 3.7 million or 42.5% of the total population.
		It is not unusual for the Wolof in the villages to eat only one meal per day during the later parts of the year.
		Help is available for people in need, but often people choose to use the river because they don't have to pay for the water.
	www.gosahara.org /wolof.html (2531 words)

	African Tribes - Wolof People
		Wolof are also known as the merchants of West Africa, they are very aggressive in trading, which is a big part of their history.
		The Wolof are known as the trend-setters of West Africa.
		Many Wolof are also polygamous, however, polygamy doesn't seem to be considered natural to many of the Wolof who soon after obtaining a second wife are divorced from their first.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/wolof.htm (292 words)

	Wolof alphabet, pronunciation and language
		Wolof is one of the six national languages of Senegal (Senegaal / سِنِڭَالْ), along with Serer, Mandinka, Pulaar, Diola and Soninke.
		The Wolof orthography using the Latin alphabet was standardised in 1974.
		Before then Wolof was usually written with a version of the Arabic script known as Wolofal, which is still used by many older men in Senegal.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/wolof.htm (177 words)

	The Wolof People - How they tick
		The Wolof are driven by a need to maintain appearances and fulfil community expectations even to the point of accumulating huge debts or depriving their families of the basic necessities of life.
		The goals and thinking of the Wolof with respect to finances are so different to that of the Westerner, that the area of finances is often one of the biggest sources of misunderstandings and frustrations between the Senegalese and the Westerner.
		It is in folk Islam where people deal with the important issues of life: health and sickness, the fear of evil spirits, witches and fl magic, advancement in life.
	www.hotkey.net.au /~mjackson/NewWolof.htm (1801 words)

	UCLA Wolof Home page
		Additionally, Wolof and five other prominent African languages have been made "national languages", a status which allows them to be used in schools where the majority of students speak one of these six as a native language (Malherbe 1989).
		The Wolof people constitute an ethnic majority, representing 42.67% of the country's population, according to the 1988 census.
		The Wolof spoken in Dakar, Senegal's capital, is particularly noted for its high level of French loans or derivitive words and is readily distinguishable from the Wolof spoken in other parts of Senegal.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/aflang/wolof (756 words)

	New Media in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wolof is still not a “standardized” language in its oral usage, because no single dialect has ever come to be generally accepted as the one correct version of Wolof.
		Furthermore, Wolof was not a written language until the 1960s and there are both Roman and Arabic alphabets for the language.
		Despite the fact that the Wolof language has had a recent resurgence in popularity, literacy in Senegal, according to 2004 UNDP statistics, is an average of 39% for adults.
	pages.pomona.edu /~apv02003 (3978 words)

	Slavery in America
		The African Wolofs were brought to the North American colonies as enslaved people between 1670 and 1700.
		Additionally, a large number of Wolof words took root in American English because Wolof people were frequently used as interpreters by European slavers along the coast of West Africa in the early years of the slave trade.
		Wolof word for fruit, was first recorded in 1563, and entered British English in the 17th century via Spanish and Portuguese.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /history/hs_es_languages.htm (1563 words)

	Winne.com - Report on Gambia, Open for business
		Most of the people are strict in their Religious practices and the devout Muslims can be seen praying not only in Mosques but also in other public places at all prayer times of the day.
		The Tukulor people are found predominantly in the Fula Toro region in northern Senegal, although their origins are vague, and their history and culture overlap with the Fula.
		In Gambia, the Aku people are the earliest educated.
	www.winne.com /gambia/bf02.html (1162 words)

	Mennonite Mission Network
		A Wolof disciple of Jesus, Ibu* is working with Jim and Paula Hanes to bring teaching to a village in the form of a chronological rendition of the Bible.
		This “storying” is done in a distinctly Wolof style of oral communication with the addition of visual and audio aids to facilitate learning and feedback.
		Wolof farmers tend to approach the job communally, which Hanes said is not all that different from his experience in central Illinois.
	www.mennonitemission.net /resources/News/story.asp?ID=860 (1135 words)

	Wolof - Sabar Wolof: Dance Drumming of Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wolof language Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania.
		Wolof people are also found selling a variety of goods in the market places Many of the Wolof young men move to Dakar, hoping for a more promising
		Tabala Wolof is the ritual drum music of a West African Sufi order, Tabala Wolof evolved in the late 1700s, when the Qadiriya arrived in Senegal.
	webinfofeed.com /wifd/wolof.htm (322 words)

	People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Atlantic peoples along the northern section of the coast (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and northern Guinea) are primarily Muslim.
		Wolof people lived along the Senegal coast as early as the eleventh century.
		The Atlantic peoples along the southern section of the coast (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia) are more strongly involved in African traditional religious practices.
	www.wagateway.org /people.htm (528 words)

	Wolof
		Of the 3 million Wolof, 2.8 million are living in the country of Senegal, West Africa.
		The Wolof live in a harsh, desert environment in which only 35% have access to safe drinking water.
		The majority of Wolof make their living as peanut farmers or merchants.
	www.wolof.org (78 words)

	Resources on the Wolof
		...du Mauritanie, (Islamic Republic of), Arabic and Wolof are the...
		Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal The Republic of Senegal is a country
		The Wolof are the largest ethnic group in Senegal, making up approximately 45% of the population.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Wolof.html (636 words)

	ASU Research E-Magazine: Learning the Language of Drums
		Senegal is presently developing a written language in a native tongue, Wolof.
		Wolof is so area-specific that Sunkett’s only textbook comes from the Peace Corps.
		But by using Wolof, Sunkett intends to learn the stories tucked away in the memories of the elders, some of whom refuse to speak anything but their own language.
	researchmag.asu.edu /stories/language.html (546 words)

	Voices of New York
		The Wolof language originated from an African tribe that migrated west from Mali to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
		These people come from small villages in Senegal and are not even used to the big cities in Senegal.
		The owners of the restaurant were Wolof speakers and the menu was written in both Wolof and English.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/blake.map2001/senegal.html (2052 words)

	africa people wolof
		The peoples of Africa are often described in terms of their ethnic background or their languages.
		For example, The Akan people are given a page of their own, yet the Asante (Ashanti) are also an Akan people, as are the Akuapem.
		The country that has the biggest concentration of people of Wolof descent is Gambia.
	www.archaeolink.com /africa_people_wolof.htm (434 words)

	Journey with us to the Wolof of Senegal - Bringing Jesus to the World! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wolof people of Senegal are one of the priority unreached people groups in the 10/40 window.
		Come with us on a journey to learn more about who the Wolof people are, and what part you can play in seeing the glorious Church of Jesus Christ established among them.
		We are seeking to bring together a network of all the individuals and groups who have adopted the Wolof people This will enable us to distibute more specific information for prayer and create a more efficient partnership representing all missions working among the Wolof.
	www.browncroft.org /wolof (279 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Wolof
		The language of the Wolof people is Wolof.
		Wolof serves as the lingua franca, or trade language, for over 80% of the population.
		Wolof is one of 42 languages spoken in Sénégal.
	www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgid=47&fun=2 (808 words)

	Mots Pluriels Hinchman
		To better understand the crucial distinction between stereotypes of people known and unknown, familiar and strange, the work of contemporary sociologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, based on the writings of John Dewey, is useful.
		When people see stereotypes of people they already know, that is, recognize, they agree upon a particular formulation as an adequate representation of reality.
		The desire to generalize, even concerning people, is not of itself an inherently evil project, and in many instances is a constitutive way for people to make sense out of the chaos of the world.
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /MotsPluriels/MP1099mh.html (5045 words)

	Sabar Wolof: Dance Drumming of Senegal
		Wolof drummers accompany dancers by playing strongly opposed cross-rhythms that are laced with grace notes.
		On Sabar Wolof: Dance Drumming of Senegal, Mapathé Diop (ma-PA-tay dyup) and his troupe play Wolof dance rhythms and compositions on sabar drums and on the Wolof talking drum, or tama.
		Sabar Wolof: Dance Drumming of Senegal was digitally recorded near Dakar, Senegal, except for portions digitally recorded at Ironwood Studios in Seattle, Washington.
	www.villagepulse.com /sabar.html (242 words)

	Team prayerwalks NYC streets for Africa's unreached Wolof - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Wolof are a hospitable people who observe a form of Islam mixed with traditional religious practices.
		A knot of Wolof vendors quickly encircles Tracey Dunnavant, a former missionary to West Africa who has come to New York to prayerwalk among the city's Wolof immigrants and ask God to open the door for the gospel among them.
		Though missionaries have worked among the Wolof in West Africa for years, only about 50 have opened their hearts to the good news of God's love, and many of those keep their faith a secret for fear of persecution.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?Id=5652 (1202 words)

	People Name: Wolof
		Adoption is involvement by the local church in ministry to the Wolof.
		Praying for the Wolof people in public worship as well as private devotion.
		Understanding the Wolof people to be your primary focus in world evangelization.
	www.townbeacon.com /wolof/profile.html (505 words)

	drumafrica_people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With a population estimated at over 10 million it is composed of numerous ethnic groups (Wolof, Serer, Fulani, Diola, Toucouleur, Mandinke and Sininke) as well as various nationalities.
		The people of Senegal are warm, friendly and hospitable.
		As Yoff is a fishing village, the Wolof people of Yoff are called Lebou.
	www.drummingafrica.com /drumafrica_people.html (341 words)

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