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Diagne, Pathé


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    • Pathé F.
  • Variants

    • Jâǹ, Pate
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      • found: Quelle démocratie pour le Sénégal?, 1984:t.p. (Pathé Diagne)
      • found: LC data base, 11-2-84(hdg.: Diagne, Pathé)
      • found: His Sénégal, c1984:t.p. (Pathé F. Diagne) verso t.p. (Pathé Diagne)
      • found: Structure interne du walaf contemporain, 19--:t.p. (Pathé Diagne; Pate Jâǹ)
      • found: Bakari II, 1312, et Christophe Colomb, 1492, 2014:title page (Pathé Diagne) page 4 of cover (academic, teacher and researcher; he did his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne, Paris; pioneer in linguistics and linguistic archaeology; he has contributed to Unesco's history of Africa; he has taught at several North American universities: Carbondale, De Pauw, UCLA, Harvard, and Cornell)
      • found: Harmattan website, Feb. 6, 2015(Pathé Diagne, political scientist; linguist, historian of civilizations; director of Editions Sankoré; speaks Arabic and has studied several African languages; he is author of a translation of the Qur'an into Wolof; from Senegal, taught linguistics in the U.S.; 65 years old)
      • found: The Conversation (blog), Sénégal: décès de Pathé Diagne, un intellectuel aux multiples talents, September 4, 2023, viewed April 22, 2024(Senegalese academic Pathé Diagne died 23 August; born in Saint-Louis in 1934; economist, linguist, historian of civilization, and editor; trained in various disciplines at the Université de Dakar (now Université Cheikh Anta Diop), Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and École pratique des hautes études en sciences sociales de Paris; participated, via his works in the early 1960s in the U.S. at University of Carbondale (Illinois), in the advent of transformational and generative linguistics; contributed to comparative linguistics studies begun by the West African Linguistic Society; he was teacher-researcher at the Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (IFAN) and the Faculté de lettres et sciences humaines, Université de Dakar; collected fundamental texts of Senegalese literature, and oversaw translations into Wolof of works by Sophocles, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, etc.; he conceived the Unesco program "Langues africaines Horizon 2000" in the 1980s; former editor in chief of Présence Africaine; one of the organizers of the Festival mondial des arts nègres de Dakar (1966), Festival panafricain d'Alger (1969), and the Organization of African Unity's cultural charter of Africa (1977); created the Librairie and the Éditions Sankoré in Dakar in the 1970s; organizer of the first Conférence panafricaine de Dakar (1984); founder of the Association internationale des arts et cultures (AIFESPAC); as an economist he was a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme and many others; author of La grammaire moderne du Wolof (1967), Anthologie wolof de la littérature universelle (1970), Anthologie de la littérature wolof (1971), among other publications; author of the first translation of the Qur'an into Wolof and in the Latin alphabet done by a francophone academic; others had been done in ajami)
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      • 1984-11-07: new
      • 2024-06-22: revised
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