Young African Writer, Mr. Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe, Suggested New Words in the English Dictionary

The famous young Gambian West African writer and scholar, born Modou Lamin Sowe ( 1990),  well known by his penname Modou Lamin Age- Almusaf Sowe, a former teacher-librarian and drama coordinator at Masroor Senior Secondary School,  the  founder of the Young Writers' Association of The Gambia  ( YWAG), former university-librarian and the director of academic research at the African Development University  (ADU ), an independent researcher and scholar of intellectual property and library and information studies,  has suggested
adding 16 new words, new senses and new sub-entries in the English language dictionary.

Speaking to Mr. Sowe in his library earlier this weekend to the African Youth Architects  ( AYA ), Mr. Sowe said is not about level of education, nationality,  knowledge or the degrees one has obtained, but some people are just born special to create history in this world.


 The 28-year-old unmarried Gambian scholar suggested these 16 new words, which in turn is making sense to everyone around the world:


"Had I been granted a chunk of pages in the Oxford English Dictionary,  the Cambridge English Dictionary, the Collins English Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the Macmillan Dictionary and the Thesaurus, etc., unlike the 422 Words that William Shakespeare invented without questioning his maturity, affiliation, nationality, educational background, sense of belonging and capabilities, or without any White-supremacy, or discrimination as a means of looking low upon him over Africans, or by means of exercising superiority of the White race over black Africans; it will be my higher honor and distinct privilege to add these 16 new word entries, new senses and sub-entries to the dictionary."


1. Afrika, to be also spelt as AfriKa,  ( n),  a. the belief or the vision that there will be a United States of Africa ( US.Afri).

b. The philosophy that the word Africa with the letter 'c' was being coined for us, in order to disunite our continent, to be seen as the land of pest and diseases, hunger and poverty, corruption and war,  contrast to the dream of Kwame Nkrumah and Mohammad Ghaddafi to the emergence of a United States of Africa ( US.Afri), which can govern herself from her rich resources, and to be totally free from foreign rule and influence.


2  Ferciluous, ( n),  the belief that poverty is man-made and can be conquered by accepting to be part of an entity that is far more better than the generations in the past.


3. Xanalovic, ( n),  the state or the condition in which a man or a woman lacks the heart or the hope to fall in love again or get marry, as a result of experiencing unhealed emotional wounds or scars in their hearts for their past experiences.


4. Mankindious, ( adj), of a person having to belief that one's knowledge, number of wife( ves) or a child (children), or amount of wealth, fame or power that one has,  will actually last forever and there is no life after death.


5. Libraritanious, ( adj), highly self-learned or the process or the act of learning, or being educated in a library and being able to impact change in society.

 Example: A libraritanious librarian knows how to collect data, organize them , and to properly disseminate and manage information in a library.


6. Afrikanly,  ( adverb), of an African or Afrikan citizen acting in a way that shows experience, knowledge, and good judgement for his/her identity.


7. US.Afri, ( n) a. A United States of Afrika or United States of Africa.

b. A prosperous and integrated Afrika for the Africa we want.


8. Ramzilious, ( adj),  highly unpleasant marriage or love relationships being cursed by one's demon or demon spirits.


9. Afri-fool, ( n),  the state in which an African citizen discovers, writes, sings, invents,  or even to the extent of being very successful in their work or dreams- and then get themselves intelligently deceived or rejected by White people contrary to the benefits they can bring to Africans.

Example: The murder of Thomas Sankara and Mohammad Ghaddafi was an Afri-fool to Africans and African development.


10. Eye-to-see-one, ( v),  the action of being part of a movement that sees everything with one-eye.



11. Age-Almusaf ( n) the theory that there are four categories of human beings on earth; and that they are divided into four categories, namely:
Those who know but they don't talk.
Those who talk but they don't know.
Those who don't talk at all because they don't know, and,
Those who talk and they know: as said by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe in his scholarly work and famous play, The Throne of The Ghost ( ISBN9789789497133).


12. Painwriting, ( n ),  the painful action or narrative or a story of connected events, real or imaginary, in which all writers' pass through before they garner fame for their works, or become successful in their writing careers.



13. Mahdirism, also Jesusism ( n),  the belief that a religious reformer who is not a prophet, neither a messenger of God, and nor an impostor is going to rule this world with the help of Jesus as an ordinary human being than ascending down as a prophet or a messenger of God.


14. Acheberian, ( n), anything having to do with the writing, speeches or the work of late Nigerian African writer, critic and professor Chinua Achebe.


15. Mandelian, (n), the belief in freedom and love for one's country as opposed to patriotism,  in a more rigid and unforgettable manner; as the memories of late African hero and freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela and his struggle against apathy in South Africa.


16. Multiversity, (n), the opposite of a university. A place of learning for Doctorate and PhD students, or anyone who has successfully completed all their various university degrees, but still wishing to learn in the future. The degree to be granted after this studies is known as Dr. Dr. Prof (DdP).

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