Writer, teacher and translator, Mame Younousse Dieng is the first Wolof novelist. Baabakar Wolof shows us this wonderful pioneer. Mame Younousse Dieng reminds us that our language is a strength. Everything started at the school for Mame Younousse Dieng. To learn her lessons, she first translated them into Wolof. That's how she started to write. "As soon as I entered school, I was translating everything I was learning. I had the impression that i…
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Writer, teacher and translator, Mame Younousse Dieng is the first Wolof novelist. Baabakar Wolof shows us this wonderful pioneer. Mame Younousse Dieng reminds us that our language is a strength. Everything started at the school for Mame Younousse Dieng. To learn her lessons, she first translated them into Wolof. That's how she started to write. "As soon as I entered school, I was translating everything I was learning. I had the impression that i…