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La ville de Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso. Urbanité et appartenances en Afrique de l'Ouest
Toute étude sur l’urbanisation et l’urbanité doit tenir compte du fait qu’aucune ville ne ressemble à une autre. La capitale Ouagadougou et la seconde ville du Burkina Faso, Bobo-Dioulasso, se distinguent l’une de l’autre par leur histoire, leur composition démographique, leur urbanisme, leurs ressources économiques, leurs éléments socioculturels, etc. Leurs habitants s’identifient en tant que « Ouagalais » ou « Bobolais ». Mais qui sont exactement ces « Bobolais » ? Se caractériser soi-même comme Bobolais ou bien être caractérisé comme tel par d’autres est un élément d’identité urbaine. Bobo-Dioulasso forme un point de jonction dans un réseau ancien de ...
POLITIQUE AFRICAINE N-128 : Corps habillés. Politique des métiers de l'ordre
Dossier : Corps habillés. Politique des métiers de l’ordre, coordonné par Marielle Debos et Joël Glasman. Répressions violentes, engagements guerriers, mutineries, coups d’État : les « corps habillés » apparaissent régulièrement avec fracas dans l’actualité africaine. Avec la multiplication des programmes de « réforme du système de la sécurité » (RSS), les professionnels de l’ordre font désormais l’objet d’une grande attention sur la scène internationale. On sait pourtant peu de choses des militaires, des policiers ou des gardes forestiers qui exercent leur métier en uniforme ou en civil, dans la rue ou dans un bureau. Quels sont les savoirs, les pratiques et...
Corps habillés
Répressions violentes, engagements guerriers, mutineries, coups d'Etat : les "corps habillés" apparaissent régulièrement avec fracas dans l'actualité africaine. Avec la multiplication des programmes de "réforme du système de la sécurité" (RSS), les professionnels de l'ordre font désormais l'objet d'une grande attention sur la scène internationale. On sait pourtant peu de choses des militaires, des policiers ou des gardes forestiers qui exercent leur métier en uniforme ou en civil, dans la rue ou dans un bureau. Quels sont les savoirs, les pratiques et les conflits propres à ce champ professionnel ? En se défaisant de la perspective du "professionnalisme" qui marque les expertises de la RSS, ce dossier montre que les forces de l'ordre sont à la fois des instruments centraux de la surveillance et de la répression des populations, et de la contestation du pouvoir d'Etat. A partir d'études de cas au Sénégal, au Nigeria et en Sierra Leone, il invite à penser les rapports des métiers de l'ordre à l'Etat en étudiant ensemble leur fonctionnement ordinaire et les expressions les plus spectaculaires de l'action politique.
Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms
In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts.
Remains of Ritual
Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality—in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson’s careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society.
The Perils of Belonging
Despite being told that we now live in a cosmopolitan world, more and more people have begun to assert their identities in ways that are deeply rooted in the local. These claims of autochthony—meaning “born from the soil”—seek to establish an irrefutable, primordial right to belong and are often employed in politically charged attempts to exclude outsiders. In The Perils of Belonging, Peter Geschiere traces the concept of autochthony back to the classical period and incisively explores the idea in two very different contexts: Cameroon and the Netherlands. In both countries, the momentous economic and political changes following the end of the cold war fostered anxiety over migration. For Cameroonians, the question of who belongs where rises to the fore in political struggles between different tribes, while the Dutch invoke autochthony in fierce debates over the integration of immigrants. This fascinating comparative perspective allows Geschiere to examine the emotional appeal of autochthony—as well as its dubious historical basis—and to shed light on a range of important issues, such as multiculturalism, national citizenship, and migration.
West African Challenge to Empire
West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa. How such a movement could be organized in the face of European technological superiority despite the fact that this region is generally described as having consisted of rival villages and descent groups is a puzzle. In this jointly written book the two authors provide a detailed political and military history of this event based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork. Using cultural and sociological analysis, it probes the origins of the movement, its internal organization, its strategy, and the reasons for its initial success and why it spread. In 2001 the authors of West African Challenge to Empire were awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute.
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Afric...
Governing Cities in Africa
Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies brings a unique set of comparative and collaboratively generated insights to bear on some key themes of urbanism in sub-Saharan Africa. The book brings to the fore themes that are often neglected in urban studies generally - such as the role of political parties - and interrogates and proposes alternatives to some terms - such as informality - which are perhaps overused in exploring cities in Africa. It has a very dynamic approach to building genuinely new analyses, working across a few to several cities at once, exploring both astonishing similarities and surprising sifferences, and bringing the clarity of thinking of some of the top scholars working on these issues in the region and beyond. This is a rare kind of book, based on deep empirical knowledge and complex theoretical reflection, drawing insight from different language communities and from a very wide array of different cities - it is genuinely comparative, and a model for how to build conceptual insights about urban processes.
