Qur’an translation of the week #155: Postcolonial ambivalences in West Africa: The Fula Qur’an translation by Oumar Bâ
In a period in which, one after another, the countries of francophone Africa gained independence, the renowned West African intellectual Oumar Bâ (1917–1998) embarked upon writing the very first Qur’an translation into the Fula (or Fulani, or ‘Peul’ in French) language. Or at least, it was the first translation that was put down in writing, …
