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Djibril Dramé

Hamburg University, Germany

I am Djibril Dramé, holder of a PhD degree in African studies and Linguistics from the University of Hamburg/ the Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures. My PhD was focused on investigating dialectal variations in Soninke Islamic manuscripts collected from Soninke speaking heartland namely Mali, Senegal and Mauritania. From 2023-2024, I joined the British Library as a Chevening research fellow with the focus to obtain the original titles of the Islamic manuscripts digitised in Djenné, to make them accessible and to promote the collections within and beyond the local communities. Prior to joining the British Library, I had worked for the Germany/ Mali Ajami project as a researcher. Since the completion of my dissertation, I have been interested in the West African manuscripts’ studies particularly the Ajami manuscripts, i.e. local languages written in Arabic script. I have published various open-access articles. To name a few: the phonetic correspondences between two varieties: the varieties Kingi and Diafounou; the correlation between the graphemic and phonemic correspondences in Soninke Islamic manuscripts; and in collaboration with Prof. Denis Creissels, we published an article on transitivity in Soninke, published by Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter 26. My working languages are Soninke, Bambara, French, English and Arabic.

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