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Who they are

Mandinka and Wolof · author of the manuals

Native speaker of Wolof and Mandinka. He wrote the Mandinka–Spanish and Mandinka–Catalan manuals, published by Wanafrica, and has taught at Universitat Pompeu Fabra since 2024.

• Coordinator and lecturer, “Postcolonialism, Gender and Black African Studies” — Universitat Pompeu Fabra, since 2024
• Author and lead researcher — Wanafrica Editions, since 2014
• Founder and president of the Federació d'Associacions Africanes de Catalunya
• West Africa analyst for RTVE and 5W magazine
• Cultural adviser on migration and social mediation for associations and public bodies
• Speaks Wolof, Mandinka, French, English, Spanish and Catalan

• Author of the manuals. He wrote the Mandinka–Spanish and Mandinka–Catalan manuals, published by Wanafrica. If you take a class with him, you learn from the book he wrote himself.
• Native speaker of Wolof and Mandinka. Not subjects he studied: they are his own languages.

Background

Who they are

Wolof · from Barcelona

Native Wolof speaker and president of the Coordinadora d'Associacions de Senegalesos a Catalunya. He has run language and welcome workshops in Barcelona for years, and teaches the Wolof people actually speak: the courtesy formulas, the proverbs and the oral tradition.

• President of the Coordinadora d'Associacions de Senegalesos a Catalunya
• Workshops on language reception, integration and equality
• Wolof learning programmes for aid workers, associations, social services and diaspora families
• Analyst on Senegalese current affairs for Betevé, TV3 and the written press
• Moderator and speaker at conferences and film forums on Black African thought
• Speaks Wolof, Catalan, Spanish and French

• President of the Coordinadora d'Associacions de Senegalesos a Catalunya. He has bridged Senegal and Barcelona for years. Learning Wolof with him also means understanding the community that speaks it here.
• The Wolof people actually speak. The urban Dakar variety and the regional ones, with the courtesy formulas and the proverbs that come with them.

Who they are

Wolof, Mandinka and Bambara · from Barcelona

Teacher of West African languages and culture, a primary school teacher in Senegal. She teaches Wolof, Mandinka and Bambara through spoken communication, everyday situations and the cultural context these languages live in.

• Primary school teacher in Senegal
• Communicative teaching of African languages: conversation and speaking practice
• Everyday vocabulary and expressions
• Introduction to West African culture and traditions
• Interculturality and language mediation
• Speaks Wolof, Mandinka, Bambara, French and Spanish; understands Catalan

• Three languages, not one. Wolof, Mandinka and Bambara. She is the only person at the school who teaches Bambara, the language of Mali and the Bamako corridor.
• A primary school teacher in Senegal. She comes from classroom teaching: she knows how to set the pace both for someone starting from zero and for someone who already understands it at home.