A great event indeed Njok. Sad that some of us out here will miss it. Might
it be possible for you to make Gibril's lecture and his other papers on
Ayuba available to this forum?  Thanks for sharing and good luck with the
event.

Baba

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Malik Jeng <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> *Job Ben Solomon:*******
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> *Islam, Slavery, Class and Change in Eighteenth Century Senegambia*****
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> *Date:* Tuesday, 25 October 2011                 *Time: *5.30PM to 8PM**
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> **Institute** of **Commonwealth** Studies, ****University** of **London***
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> Room S264, Second Floor, South Block, Senate House, ****Malet Street**, **
> London** **WC1E 7HU********
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> *5.30 - 6.00 PM:*              Tea & Biscuits****
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> *6.00 - 6.10 PM:*              Introduction by Dr Shihan de Silva – Senior
> Fellow, ****Institute** of **Commonwealth Studies********
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> *6.10 – 7.00PM:*              Lecture by Gibril Faal – Chairman, African
> Foundation for Development (AFFORD)****
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> *7.00 – 7.15 PM:*             Recital of Senegambian Sufi Poetry by Ablie
> Cham –  Sufi Poet****
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> *7.15 – 8.00 PM:*             Q & A and Discussion****
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> Ayuba Bin Suleiman Jallow, known in ****England**** as Job Ben Solomon,
> was a highly educated Gambian cleric and Islamic scholar. Like many others,
> he sold fellow Africans as slaves to European traders. On 27th February
> 1730, he himself was captured and sold into slavery. Through a biography
> written by Thomas Bluett in 1734 and later writings of Francis Moore (1738)
> and others, a lot is known about Ayuba Jallow’s remarkable experience as
> slave, free-man and returnee to ****Gambia****. Gibril Faal uses the life
> of Ayuba Jallow as historical reference to examine the conditions,
> contradictions, conflicts and change in Eighteenth century **Senegambia**.
> Amongst other things, the lecture will cover: the spread and localisation of
> Islam and Sufism; the interaction between the local marshall and
> intellectual classes with European traders; and the phenomenon of the
> slave-scholar. ****
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> For over 20 years, Gibril Faal has led research projects, written papers
> and ran workshops on African diaspora history and anthropology. He ran a
> study group on African Studies called ‘Naataangeh’ (1988 to 1997), leading
> the research and lectures on the African presence in early Europe and **
> Melanesia**. In 1992, as part of the Columbus Quincentenary, Gibril gave a
> series of lectures in ****Accra**, **Ghana****, on the life of Ayuba
> Jallow and African presence in Early Britain. In 1993, he published a
> paper on *‘Blacks of the Pacific: African Origins of Melanesian Peoples’*.
> At the ‘Conference of Intellectuals and the African Diaspora (CIAD II)’ in
> 2006, organised by the African Union, UNESCO and the Brazilian Government,
> Gibril presented a paper on *‘A New Definition and Classification of the
> African Diaspora’*. In 2007, as part of the bicentenary of the abolition
> of slavery in the ****UK****, Gibril wrote a paper and project plan
> entitled ‘Ayuba Sulayman Jallow: The Life of a Gambian Slave-Scholar’. This
> project was to involve search for documents and paraphernalia linked to
> Ayuba Jallow, including his portrait painted by William Hoare in 1733 and
> the Koranic texts he wrote from memory, whilst residing in ****England****.
> In 2010, the 1733 portrait of Ayuba Jallow came up for auction. It was
> bought by the Qatar Museums Authority. Due to the efforts of the National
> Portrait Gallery (NPG), the painting shall remain in the ****UK**** for 10
> years. It is currently on loan and on show at the NPG.  ****
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