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Saiba

Mandinka and Wolof · author of the manuals

Barcelona

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.

• 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.

• 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

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. 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.

• 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

Yakhare

Wolof, Mandinka and Bambara · from Barcelona

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.

• 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.

• Primary school teacher in Senegal
• Communicative teaching of African languages: conversation and speaking practice
• Everyday vocabulary and expressions