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Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen million people were uprooted from West Africa and enslaved in the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave systems The state of Gajaage, located on the West African hinterland, offered a doorway to the Atlantic Ocean and played a central role in the wide-scale trade system that connected the histories of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Focussing on the Soninke of Gajaaga, Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré demonstrates how their resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of identity. This original study expands our understanding of the various modes of resistance West Africans employed to stem the encroaching tide of Arab imperializing efforts, European mercantile capitalism, and the Atlantic slave trade, whilst also highlighting how ethnic and religious identities were constructed and mobilized in the region.
Africa
"Coquery-Vidrovitch's book is not merely good; it's marvellous. It represents the finest product of the Annales tradition of structural history."—Immanuel Wallerstein
Being Lakota
In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, croissants are as readily available as plantains. Yet this same culinary diversity is accompanied by high prices and a scarcity of locally made food that is bewildering to residents and visitors alike.; A staggering two-thirds of the country's food is imported from outside Gabon, making Libreville's cost of living comparable to that of Tokyo and Paris. In this compelling study of food culture and colonialis...
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
L'arbre des couscous
Rachid Sidi Boumedine, qui a déjà signé un ouvrage sur les cuisines, revisite les mille et une manières de nommer, de préparer le couscous, en rapport avec les moments, les lieux, les motifs et les circonstances de sa consommation en cercle plus ou moins intime, dans une commensalité ordinaire ou solennelle. Pour secouer nos mémoires afin de les arracher à la somnolence qu’engendrent le familier et les fausses évidences, Rachid Sidi Boumedine nous plonge dans l’histoire longue pour nous convaincre de l’ancestralité de ce mets. En suivant les traces du couscous, on découvre le pointillé des voies et des chemins que l’écume des siècles a recouvert. On se résout à admett...
Histoire des Soninkés dans le Fouta Toro
Cet ouvrage constitue la première histoire des Soninkés du Fouta Toro qui vient combler un vide historiographique sur les Soninkés de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, région connue pour le melting-pot de sa population. Cette étude est une contribution importante à la compréhension de l’histoire des Soninkés et de leurs spécificités sociolinguistiques dans cette région, partagée entre la Mauritanie et le Sénégal. L’étude part du constat que les populations soninkées actuelles, installées en plusieurs endroits du Fouta Toro à partir de la fin du XVIII e siècle, ont su s’intégrer dans la région sans perdre « leur identité » culturelle, contrairement aux migrations s...
Resistance to Modernization in Africa
Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. Sivini writes with both passion and cynicism about his experiences with the numerous African aid projects he has been involved with over the years.While the fathers of independence of British and French decolonization wanted to change the colonial conditions of exploitation, Sivini finds that their good intentions have been shipwrecked. Ironically, the longer Sivini served as an aid consultant, the more he found himself dismayed at the various projects that were under...
From Frontier to Backwater
From Frontier to Backwater follows the interaction of politics, economy, society, and ecology in the upper Senegal valley from the middle of the nineteenth century through the end of World War I. During this turbulent period, the region was transformed from an export-producing area on the frontier of European expansion into a marginal labor reserve. The valley included the sparsely populated regions of Bundu, Khasso, and Gajaaga, along with the societies of Bambuk and Gidimaka in the transitional zone between the Sahara Desert and the Guinea rain forest. Over time, changing French interests constantly shifted the areas of importance, yet settlements along the water routes were generally larg...
Desperate in Saint Martin Notes on Guillaume Coppier
This book on Guillaume Coppier (1606 1674), the early 17th-century French traveler, indentured servant, colonist, mariner, moralist, baroque chronicler, antiquarian, humanist, sometime pirate and slaver of sorts, is essentially a reading of Coppier, the man and his chronicle. Coppiers Histoire et voyage des Indes Occidentales, et de plusieurs autres rgions maritimes, & esloignes (History and Voyage to the West Indies and to Several Other Maritime and Faraway Regions) was published in Lyon in 1645. Given its objective and context, this effortpart amateur historiography and translation and part novice commentary and interpretationis also a survey of past appraisals of Coppiers chronicle. Like all such endeavors, this essay informs on the essayist; it is a sort of voyage, and a long one at that.
Postcolonial Realms of Memory
‘An elegant yet accessible work, Postcolonial Realms of Memory not only exposes the colonial blind spot that left Pierre Nora’s Lieux de mémoire incomplete, but begins the long task of remedying it. This is a crucial intervention that the field has required for some time.’ Gemma King, Contemporary French Civilization
