First Questions for Joe Braima

Although this audio recording is titled First questions for Joe Braima, it appears to be instead a continuation of the converation between Tomi Lahai and Tommy Jaba (see https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29875 for this earlier conversation). The conversation in this recording centers around the Kim language

What Happens to Class When a Language Dies? Language Change vs. Language Death

This paper presents the first documentation of the noun class system of the dying language Mani (buy), Bullom So in Ethnologue, a.k.a. Mmani, Mandenyi, etc. spoken in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Mani has some few hundred speakers, all of whom speak either Soso (sus) or Temne (tem) as their everyday language. The Mani are concentrated in a restricted coastal area straddling the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone near the town of Morebaya, Kambia District, in Sierra Leone. A few other speakers are scattered in the littoral region from Conakry to Freetown

Adama Mampa on Cooking

Adama Mampa describes how to cook krain-krain and potato greens, and how they should be served

Tommy Lahai on Love

Brief audio recording of interaction between a suitor and a woman and her parents

Busy Intersections: A Framework for Revitalization

Slides from a presentation given to the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC4), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. 26 Feb – 1 Mar., 2015

Dog and Monkey (Part 2)

Transcriptions of the folk tale Dog and monkey as told by Kaba Camara in Palatougou

Story 2 (Part 2)

Text of a performance of a Mani folk tale by a group of children in Moribaya

Rice Farming: Introduction

In this video, Tommy Ngombo, Abdullai Janga and Boakai Gbandia give introductory remarks about the process of rice farming in Sampor

Adama Mende Song Saande

Interview of Adama Mende performing the song Saande, which tells of a woman who goes to the marriage house to seek a man to be her husband

Momoh Fofana: Worst Experience

Audio from an interview in which Momoh Fofana recalls his worst experience, and talks about a number of things, including youthful indescretions and their consquences, and married life with children