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The film was shot in Wolof, Senegal’s lingua franca, which Diop herself labored to understand.
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
Migrants who’d survived similar journeys were extras on the film
The majority of the film’s dialogue is in Wolof, a language Garrone does not speak.
—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
The film is in French and Wolof with English subtitles.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
The vendors chatted with one another in Wolof, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and more.
—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
And the word nyam, to eat, is thought to come from Wolof, a lingua franca in West Africa.
—Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
While studying Senegal’s rich flora in 1749, young French botanist Michel Adanson meets a young Wolof woman.
—Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
Help is harder to come by in French, Arabic, Wolof, Mandinka, or Fula—to say nothing of smaller languages and regional and ethnic dialects spoken by many African migrants.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
Among the highest rates of genetic sharing between research participants and Catoctin individuals were people who identified as West Africa's Wolof and Mandinka peoples or Central Africa's Kongo people.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
Migrants who’d survived similar journeys were extras on the film
The majority of the film’s dialogue is in Wolof, a language Garrone does not speak.
—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
The film is in French and Wolof with English subtitles.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
The vendors chatted with one another in Wolof, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and more.
—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
And the word nyam, to eat, is thought to come from Wolof, a lingua franca in West Africa.
—Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
While studying Senegal’s rich flora in 1749, young French botanist Michel Adanson meets a young Wolof woman.
—Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
Help is harder to come by in French, Arabic, Wolof, Mandinka, or Fula—to say nothing of smaller languages and regional and ethnic dialects spoken by many African migrants.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
Among the highest rates of genetic sharing between research participants and Catoctin individuals were people who identified as West Africa's Wolof and Mandinka peoples or Central Africa's Kongo people.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
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“Wolof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Wolof. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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