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The late Professor Issa Laye Thiaw with the Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio team talking about the use of plants for protection Seereer culture. This video was recorded in Sanghe (Jooɓaas, Senegal) on 15th December 2015. This huge land belongs to Professor Thiaw and it was where The Seereer Resource Centre and The Temple of Initiated Women (SRCTIW) was to be built which would include a Seereer learning centre, Seereer museum and dormitory where Seereer history, culture, medicine and traditional religion (A ƭat Roog) would be taught and open to anyone who wishes to learn. This documentary is part of the SRC Collection. The presenters were Tamsier Joof and Demba Sene from the Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio. Other team members included Njaga Gaye and Momodou Secka. This video is in Wolof. You can learn more about the SRCTIW project by visiting the Seereer Resource Centre (see links below). This project originally called the Temple for Women Initiates. It is an old project that Professor Thiaw had tried to bring to fruition for many years prior to his death on Sunday, 10th September 2017. When met by our founder Tamsier Joof in January 2015, Joof promised Thiaw to help bring this noble project to fruition. Joof visited Thiaw again in December 2015 accompanied by his colleagues Demba Sene, Njaga Gaye and Mamadou Secka. On their way to interview Saltigi Biram Puuy for the SRC Collection, Professor Thiaw asked the gentlemen to stopped by his land in Sanghe. He showed them around and renamed this project to "The Seereer Resource Centre and The Temple of Initiated Women." If you would like to help us with the funding of this important project, please contact the SRC at [email protected] Let's work together to preserve the legacy of the late Professor Thiaw - who has given so much to Seereer, Senegambian and African heritage during his lifetime. LINKS: The Seereer Resource Centre : http://www.seereer.org/ The SRC Collection : http://www.seereer.org/the-src-collec... The Seereer Resource Centre and the Temple of Initiated Women : http://www.seereer.org/temple-of-init... Seereer Radio : http://www.seereerradio.com/ Seereer Heritage Press : www.seereerheritage.com

The late Professor Issa Laye Thiaw with the Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio team talking about the well in Sanghe (Jooɓaas, Senegal). This land belongs to Professor Thiaw and it was where The Seereer Resource Centre and The Temple of Initiated Women (SRCTIW) was to be built which would include a Seereer learning centre, Seereer museum and dormitory where Seereer history, culture and traditional religion (A ƭat Roog) would be taught and open to anyone who wishes to learn. This documentary is part of the SRC Collection. The presenters were Tamsier Joof and Demba Sene from the Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio. Other team members included Njaga Gaye and Momodou Secka. This video is in Wolof. You can learn more about the SRCTIW project by visiting the Seereer Resource Centre (see links below). This project originally called the Temple for Women Initiates. It is an old project that Professor Thiaw had tried to bring to fruition for many years prior to his death on Sunday, 10th September 2017. When met by our founder Tamsier Joof in January 2015, Joof promised Thiaw to help bring this noble project to fruition. Joof visited Thiaw again in December 2015 accompanied by his colleagues Demba Sene, Njaga Gaye and Mamadou Secka. On their way to interview Saltigi Biram Puuy for the SRC Collection, Professor Thiaw asked the gentlemen to stopped by his land in Sanghe. He showed them around and renamed this project to "The Seereer Resource Centre and The Temple of Initiated Women." If you would like to help us with the funding of this important project, please contact the SRC at [email protected] Let's work together to preserve the legacy of the late Professor Thiaw - who has given so much to Seereer, Senegambian and African heritage during his lifetime. LINKS: The Seereer Resource Centre : http://www.seereer.org/ The SRC Collection : http://www.seereer.org/the-src-collec... The Seereer Resource Centre and the Temple of Initiated Women : http://www.seereer.org/temple-of-init... Seereer Radio : http://www.seereerradio.com/ Seereer Heritage Press : www.seereerheritage.com

The late Professor Issa Laye Thiaw with the Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio team talking about the Seereer Resource Centre and the Temple of Initiated Women project; plants in Seereer culture and medicine (how they are used for protection and to cure ailments) and the well in Sanghe (Jooɓaas, Senegal). This land belongs to Professor Thiaw and it was where The Seereer Resource Centre and The Temple of Initiated Women (SRCTIW) was to be built which would include a Seereer learning centre, Seereer museum and dormitory where Seereer history, culture and traditional religion (A ƭat Roog) would be taught and open to anyone who wishes to learn. This documentary is part of the SRC Collection. The presenters were Tamsier Joof and Demba Sene from the Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio. Other team members included Njaga Gaye and Momodou Secka. This video is in English, Saafi-Saafi and Wolof. You can learn more about the SRCTIW project by visiting the Seereer Resource Centre (see links below). This project originally called the Temple for Women Initiates. It is an old project that Professor Thiaw had tried to bring to fruition for many years prior to his death on Sunday, 10th September 2017. When met by our founder Tamsier Joof in January 2015, Joof promised Thiaw to help bring this noble project to fruition. Joof visited Thiaw again in December 2015 accompanied by his colleagues Demba Sene, Njaga Gaye and Mamadou Secka. On their way to interview Saltigi Biram Puuy for the SRC Collection, Professor Thiaw asked the gentlemen to stopped by his land in Sanghe. He showed them around and renamed this project to "The Seereer Resource Centre and The Temple of Initiated Women." If you would like to help us with the funding of this important project, please contact the SRC at [email protected] Let's work together to preserve the legacy of the late Professor Thiaw - who has given so much to Seereer, Senegambian and African heritage during his lifetime. LINKS: The Seereer Resource Centre : http://www.seereer.org/ The SRC Collection : http://www.seereer.org/the-src-collec... The Seereer Resource Centre and the Temple of Initiated Women : http://www.seereer.org/temple-of-init...

Biram Puuy is a Seereer High Priest (saltigi). In December 2015, The Seereer Resource Centre (SRC) in collaboration with Seereer Radio were given an audience to conduct an interview with him as part of The Seereer Resource Centre's work on documenting and preserving Seereer culture, history and religion. Tamsier Joof and Demba Sene (members of The Seereer Resource Centre and presenters on Seereer Radio) were the interviewers. Other panel members included Professor Issa Laye Thiaw, Momodou Secka and Njaga Gaye. This interview was conducted at Saltigi Biram Puuy's house in Joobaas, Senegal. Apologies for the background noise from the other household members. The panel (from left to right) : Saltigi Biram Puuy (sitting on the bed); Professor Issa Laye Thiaw (sitting on the bed); Momodou Secka; Njaga Gaye; Demba Sene and Tamsier Joof (by the door). Source languages : Wolof, Saafi-Saafi, Seereer-Siin, French and English. Subjects covered : Seereer religion, Seereer history, Seereer traditional medicine and plants in Seereer medicine; Seereer cosmology; Seereer calendar; Seereer astronomy; Seereer cosmogony; wisdom of animals; values of saltigi (or saltigue); the devil; death in Seereer society; protection against evil; Seereer symbolism, signs / writing; initiation and rites of passage (ndut); canonization and sainthood. This video is an edited version of the audio tape first broadcast on Seereer Radio by Tamsier Joof and Demba Sene. Part 1 and 2 where first broadcast on Tuesday, 5th January 2016 by Tamsier and Demba. You can listen to the full version of this interview by visiting The Seereer Resource Centre and Seereer Radio's podcast pages - see links below. Saltigi Biram Puuy rarely give interviews and is now less active as a "Saltigi" (Seereer High Priest), preferring to focus his time and efforts on Seereer religion, culture and history. We were fortunate enough to have an audience with him. The SRC and Seereer Radio would like to thank him for his time and generosity. He prefer to give knowledge and expects nothing in return, and we are truly grateful for his wisdom, honesty and generosity. LINKS : The Seereer Resource Centre's music and podcast page : http://www.seereer.com/apps/podcast/ Seereer Radio's podcast page : Part 1 of the interview : http://www.seereerradio.com/apps/podcast/podcast/359150 Part 2 of the interview : http://www.seereerradio.com/apps/podcast/podcast/359151 Tamsier Joof and Demba Sene's radio programs "Cosaan Seereer" and "The Seereer Religion and Culture Show" for which this interview was conducted (Seereer Radio) (see below): Cosaan Seereer : http://www.seereerradio.com/apps/calendar/showEvent?calID=7243544&eventID=262118479&next=%2fshowWeek%3fcalID%3d7243544%26year%3d2016%26month%3d0%26day%3d20 The Seereer Religion and Culture Show : http://www.seereerradio.com/apps/calendar/showEvent?calID=7243544&eventID=261160859&next=%2fshowWeek%3fcalID%3d7243544%26year%3d2016%26month%3d0%26day%3d20

This video titled "Cosaaniŋ kurka ne woyse "Kiñabuur" in Saafi-Saafi relates to Seereer culture within the Saafi village of Kiñabuur. This is the first part. Credits: Demba Sene, RTS1, Dimlé Sène.

"Serer people. A couple of things to know about them." From "Lutteuses 47". A documentary by Elena Dalmasso. "Lutteuses 47″ is a documentary about Senegalese women, their place in society and their determination and commitment as women, mothers and Badjenu Gox [aunt]." (February 2013) Official website : www.lutteuses47.com/about