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Examples
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Docta, whose real name is Amadou Lamine Ngom, is known as the "pioneer of graffiti art" in Senegal.
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Ngom said that samples - including ones from car batteries - had been gathered in Thiaroye-sur-Mer to be sent to health ministry laboratories.
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He added that the pair had also been ordered to together pay 30 million CFA francs (45,700 euros, 70,660 dollars) in damages to Ngom who was named Mines and Industry Minister after a cabinet reshuffle last March.
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Then-interior minister Ousmane Ngom filed a complaint against Samb and the director of the daily, Souleymane Jules Diop, after an article appeared in January quoting an anonymous letter alleging that Ngom had abused state funds.
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In a letter dated Monday, Minister of the Interior Ousmane Ngom said the government has the right to "restrict such liberties through legal channels when there is a real threat to public order."
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Ngom, who is Muslim, argues that the script was far more than a tool of religious conversion, also providing a important way for Africans to record their culture and the details of their lives safely out of view of Arab Muslims and European colonists.
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Ngom was struck by the irony: Here was his "illiterate" father communicating with him years after his death, in writing.
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What Ngom hopes is nothing less than to lay the groundwork for a reinterpretation of much of African history, using this widespread but little understood writing system to unearth new information about the daily life of Africans, the spread of Islam, the continent's literary traditions, the Atlantic slave trade, and who knows what else.
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But for Ngom, what little is known about Ajami texts is reason enough to push deeper.
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Ngom says he knows of no African universities that teach Ajami to students.
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