Talk:Wolof people

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[edit] Pronunciation of "Wolof"

Hi, I noticed the following on the Wolof disambiguation page:

In some English publications, predominantly those referring to Gambian Wolof, the spelling "Wollof" is used, because this spelling will induce native English speakers to pronounce the term correctly as a Wolof speaker.

As a native English speaker I found this interesting, having always pronounced the name as something like "wall-off" or "whoa-loaf" (heh) or something. It sounds to me like the description in the quote is describing something more along the lines of /'wəlɔf/. Does that look about right? I'd like to add the pronunciation to the article at the beginning, because I imagine many others mispronounce the word as well. --babbage 20:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture: A "Wolof Boy"???

Well, I don't see a "French Boy" on the French page (wearing a baret and eating a baguette perhaps...) . Is this supposed to teach us what they look like, like in some 18th century anthropological-colonial manuscript? Wouldn't it be better to fight that White-Middle Class-Western bias of Main English Wikipedia by showing a map of the land or something? 89.0.34.12 (talk) 15:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, similar images have been inserted in some other articles on ethnic groups, see for example Mandinka people, Fula people etc. --BotevFixer (talk) 19:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)