By pure chance the book I chose for our exploration of Africa is by an award-winning author and artist Baba Wagué Diakité who happens to reside in Portland, OR! What a small world! I wrote him an e-mail and asked if he could help me out with some of the pronunciations of words in Bambara (the national language of Mali) and wonderfully, he got back to me right away. We just had a lively conversation over the phone this morning. Baba runs the Ko-Falen center where he promotes cultural, artistic, and educational exchanges between the people of the United States and Mali through art workshops, dance, music, and ceremony. Thank you Baba for your wonderful work!
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