A Bellagamba
Biographic Data
| ID | 41977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Bellagamba |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellagamba |
| SIGNATURE | BELLAGAMBA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2762-381X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Political Energy of the Backway
During the 2010s, The Gambia came under the spotlight of the European migration regime because of the numbers of its citizens requesting asylum in Europe. Historically sensitive ethnography highlights the specificity of this phase of Gambian migrations and situates it in the country’s political history. The political energy that the “backway”—as undocumented migrations to Europe have been popularly known in The Gambia since the 2000s—manifested a…
Des expériences infra-libératoires à Dakar
Thomas Fouquet est l’auteur d’une recherche ethnographique de longue durée sur la jeunesse subalterne de Dakar. Il a enquêté, en particulier, sur les trajectoires de vie et les expériences des « aventurières de la nuit » dakaroise : les jeunes filles qui fréquentent les boîtes de nuit et les bars de la ville en y cherchant des fortunes diverses, afin de s’affranchir des conditions de dépendance imposées par les rôles reproductifs auxquels elles s…
Du bien-être relationnel à l'aisance de vie
Dans les régions guinéennes de Gaoual et de Koundara, où le pastoralisme peul a prospéré depuis la fin du XXe siècle, la notion pulaar de heɓtaare, communément traduite en français par « liberté », « indépendance » ou encore « bien-être », exprime à la fois l'émancipation, pour les êtres humains, des contraintes politiques, environnementales et socioéconomiques et les conditions de bien-être produites par ce processus d'émancipation. L'étude des …
Dans l'ordinaire de la liberté et de l'émancipation
du Cap une rflexion sur la libert et sur les manires de l'tudier avec les outils de l'anthropologie.L'anne prcdente, en 1989, la fin de la Guerre froide semble marquer le dbut de la mondialisation des thories conomiques et des modes de gouvernance nolibraux, tels qu'ils se sont dvelopps dans l'ancien bloc de l'Ouest depuis les annes 1980, sous le premier ministre britannique de Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) et la prsidence amricaine de Ronald Rea…
"At the time of the "backway
Backway" is the Gambian term for the outflow of people, mostly via the Mediterranean and oceanic routes that during the 2010s turned the country into one of the highest per capita origin points for sub-Saharan migrants in Europe. From the standpoint of Kerewan, a Gambian rural community proud of its migratory legacy, a mobility rules perspective uncovers the specificity of the "backway" in sensible arenas of village life: household and family net…
Migration drivers and migration choice
The notion of migration as being at least partly about 'choice' is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions have considered migration choice as step-wise in nature, involving a separation between 'aspiration' and 'ability' to migrate, whilst stressing a range of non-economic factors that influence migration choices. But such nuances have not prevented the emergence of a significant area of public policy that …
Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba
Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba were two slave descendants born in rural Gambia in the 1910s. By following their migration in the period before the outbreak of World War II to Bathurst, the capital of the Colony of the Gambia, this essay focuses on the opportunities and restraints that ambitious young men willing to shake off the social disability of their slave ancestry experienced both in their home contexts and in the urban setting. The cultural…
Introduction
The volume analyzes the formation of the Europe’s externalized border management of African migrations, as well as its socio-cultural, political, economic and existential underpinnings and implications. The introduction lays the analytical foundations of this collective endeavor. As it is a process emanating from Europe, scholars have primarily studied the externalization of Europe’s borders from ‘inside out’, that is, as seen in the migrant-rece…
Legacies of Slavery and Popular Traditions of Freedom in Southern Senegal (1860–1960)
This study examines the historical linkages that developed between experiences of enslavement, the legacies of slavery, and ideas of freedom before and after abolition in the early twentieth century in an area of southern Senegal known today as the Kolda region. In the Fulfulde language, spoken by the majority of the population, there are several terms and expressions to talk about freedom. The first is ndimaaku , which people tend to equate with…
Freedom from Below
Before slavery people could have not conceived of the thing we call freedom.1 ∵ For most of human history, freedom and slavery developed as intertwined notions.2It was only with abolition, and the subsequent waning of slavery from the daily experiences of large segments of humankind in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that a sense of divergence could be detected between their conceptual and experiential paths.3Slavery m…
Sources and methods
My Elderly Friends of The Gambia
To be sure, The Gambia is a male-dominated society. Yet male dominion should not be taken for granted whether in the public arena or in the intimate sphere of family and gender relations. Both its negotiated nature, and the plurality of models on which the constructions and experiences of masculinity are based, are particularly evident when we take into account the variable of age. This essay is prompted, by the life-trajectories and the ordinary…
“Being a Slave, I Was Afraid…”
The colonial state was a bureaucracy. It wrote things down and preserved written records. When the colonial state was gone, it left behind masses of paper, which can be found in the capitals of former empires and in administrative centers all over Africa. They record both the minutiae of daily administrative life and the larger questions, both the ways Africa's colonial rulers saw the people they governed and how they responded to Africa's proble…
Finding the African Voice
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Africanistica
After Abolition
This chapter explores how internal historical slavery is almost entirely silenced in the Gambia and how this ‘silencing’ parallels slavery's metaphorical extension to the experience of poverty and continuing exploitation in contemporary Gambian society. Gambian struggles for national independence in the 1950s and against poverty in the 1990s were expressed in the metaphor of slavery. Afrocentric discourses of slavery were introduced from the Unit…
Back to the Land of Roots. African American Tourism and the Cultural Heritage of the River Gambia
In the late 1960s, the African American journalist and novelist Alex Haley Identified the small rural village of Juffureh at the mouth of the River Gambia as the place where slave traders kidnapped his ancestor Kunta Kinte so as to sell him as a slave on the other side of the Atlantic. Within a few years, the publication of the novel, Roots, in 1976 and the production of a TV series with the same title brought the small Republic of The Gambia to …
Before It Is Too Late
Alice Bellagamba, Before It Is Too Late: Constructing an Archive of Oral Sources and a National Museum in Independent Gambia, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 4, Memory and the Formation of Political Identities in West Africa (Summer, 2006), pp. 29-52
Slavery and Emancipation in the Colonial Archives
(2005). Slavery and Emancipation in the Colonial Archives: British Officials, Slave-Owners, and Slaves in the Protectorate of the Gambia (1890-1936) Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 5-41
Entrustment and Its Changing Political Meanings in Fuladu, the Gambia (1880-1994)
The practice of entrustment is a form of voluntary allegiance for the sake of protection, one which historically lies at the core of host–stranger relationships along the River Gambia. Deeply woven into the social fabric of local communities, it was appropriated by various historical subjects during the twentieth century in order to construct networks of political confidence and mutual assistance at a local and national level. This article traces…
Portrait of a Chief between Past and Present
Entrustment and Its Changing Political Meanings in Fuladu, the Gambia (1880-1994)
The practice of entrustment is a form of voluntary allegiance for the sake of protection, one which historically lies at the core of host–stranger relationships along the River Gambia. Deeply woven into the social fabric of local communities, it was appropriated by various historical subjects during the twentieth century in order to construct networks of political confidence and mutual assistance at a local and national level. This article traces…
Slavery and Emancipation in the Colonial Archives
(2005). Slavery and Emancipation in the Colonial Archives: British Officials, Slave-Owners, and Slaves in the Protectorate of the Gambia (1890-1936) Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 5-41
Back to the Land of Roots. African American Tourism and the Cultural Heritage of the River Gambia
In the late 1960s, the African American journalist and novelist Alex Haley Identified the small rural village of Juffureh at the mouth of the River Gambia as the place where slave traders kidnapped his ancestor Kunta Kinte so as to sell him as a slave on the other side of the Atlantic. Within a few years, the publication of the novel, Roots, in 1976 and the production of a TV series with the same title brought the small Republic of The Gambia to …
Migration drivers and migration choice
The notion of migration as being at least partly about 'choice' is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions have considered migration choice as step-wise in nature, involving a separation between 'aspiration' and 'ability' to migrate, whilst stressing a range of non-economic factors that influence migration choices. But such nuances have not prevented the emergence of a significant area of public policy that …
My Elderly Friends of The Gambia
To be sure, The Gambia is a male-dominated society. Yet male dominion should not be taken for granted whether in the public arena or in the intimate sphere of family and gender relations. Both its negotiated nature, and the plurality of models on which the constructions and experiences of masculinity are based, are particularly evident when we take into account the variable of age. This essay is prompted, by the life-trajectories and the ordinary…
Freedom from Below
Before slavery people could have not conceived of the thing we call freedom.1 ∵ For most of human history, freedom and slavery developed as intertwined notions.2It was only with abolition, and the subsequent waning of slavery from the daily experiences of large segments of humankind in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that a sense of divergence could be detected between their conceptual and experiential paths.3Slavery m…
Portrait of a Chief between Past and Present
Legacies of Slavery and Popular Traditions of Freedom in Southern Senegal (1860–1960)
This study examines the historical linkages that developed between experiences of enslavement, the legacies of slavery, and ideas of freedom before and after abolition in the early twentieth century in an area of southern Senegal known today as the Kolda region. In the Fulfulde language, spoken by the majority of the population, there are several terms and expressions to talk about freedom. The first is ndimaaku , which people tend to equate with…
"At the time of the "backway
Backway" is the Gambian term for the outflow of people, mostly via the Mediterranean and oceanic routes that during the 2010s turned the country into one of the highest per capita origin points for sub-Saharan migrants in Europe. From the standpoint of Kerewan, a Gambian rural community proud of its migratory legacy, a mobility rules perspective uncovers the specificity of the "backway" in sensible arenas of village life: household and family net…
Before It Is Too Late
Alice Bellagamba, Before It Is Too Late: Constructing an Archive of Oral Sources and a National Museum in Independent Gambia, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 4, Memory and the Formation of Political Identities in West Africa (Summer, 2006), pp. 29-52
Portrait of a Chief between Past and Present
Entrustment and Its Changing Political Meanings in Fuladu, the Gambia (1880-1994)
The practice of entrustment is a form of voluntary allegiance for the sake of protection, one which historically lies at the core of host–stranger relationships along the River Gambia. Deeply woven into the social fabric of local communities, it was appropriated by various historical subjects during the twentieth century in order to construct networks of political confidence and mutual assistance at a local and national level. This article traces…
Slavery and Emancipation in the Colonial Archives
(2005). Slavery and Emancipation in the Colonial Archives: British Officials, Slave-Owners, and Slaves in the Protectorate of the Gambia (1890-1936) Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 5-41
Before It Is Too Late
Alice Bellagamba, Before It Is Too Late: Constructing an Archive of Oral Sources and a National Museum in Independent Gambia, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 4, Memory and the Formation of Political Identities in West Africa (Summer, 2006), pp. 29-52
After Abolition
This chapter explores how internal historical slavery is almost entirely silenced in the Gambia and how this ‘silencing’ parallels slavery's metaphorical extension to the experience of poverty and continuing exploitation in contemporary Gambian society. Gambian struggles for national independence in the 1950s and against poverty in the 1990s were expressed in the metaphor of slavery. Afrocentric discourses of slavery were introduced from the Unit…
Back to the Land of Roots. African American Tourism and the Cultural Heritage of the River Gambia
In the late 1960s, the African American journalist and novelist Alex Haley Identified the small rural village of Juffureh at the mouth of the River Gambia as the place where slave traders kidnapped his ancestor Kunta Kinte so as to sell him as a slave on the other side of the Atlantic. Within a few years, the publication of the novel, Roots, in 1976 and the production of a TV series with the same title brought the small Republic of The Gambia to …
Africanistica
“Being a Slave, I Was Afraid…”
The colonial state was a bureaucracy. It wrote things down and preserved written records. When the colonial state was gone, it left behind masses of paper, which can be found in the capitals of former empires and in administrative centers all over Africa. They record both the minutiae of daily administrative life and the larger questions, both the ways Africa's colonial rulers saw the people they governed and how they responded to Africa's proble…
Finding the African Voice
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
My Elderly Friends of The Gambia
To be sure, The Gambia is a male-dominated society. Yet male dominion should not be taken for granted whether in the public arena or in the intimate sphere of family and gender relations. Both its negotiated nature, and the plurality of models on which the constructions and experiences of masculinity are based, are particularly evident when we take into account the variable of age. This essay is prompted, by the life-trajectories and the ordinary…
Sources and methods
Introduction
The volume analyzes the formation of the Europe’s externalized border management of African migrations, as well as its socio-cultural, political, economic and existential underpinnings and implications. The introduction lays the analytical foundations of this collective endeavor. As it is a process emanating from Europe, scholars have primarily studied the externalization of Europe’s borders from ‘inside out’, that is, as seen in the migrant-rece…
Legacies of Slavery and Popular Traditions of Freedom in Southern Senegal (1860–1960)
This study examines the historical linkages that developed between experiences of enslavement, the legacies of slavery, and ideas of freedom before and after abolition in the early twentieth century in an area of southern Senegal known today as the Kolda region. In the Fulfulde language, spoken by the majority of the population, there are several terms and expressions to talk about freedom. The first is ndimaaku , which people tend to equate with…
Freedom from Below
Before slavery people could have not conceived of the thing we call freedom.1 ∵ For most of human history, freedom and slavery developed as intertwined notions.2It was only with abolition, and the subsequent waning of slavery from the daily experiences of large segments of humankind in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that a sense of divergence could be detected between their conceptual and experiential paths.3Slavery m…
Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba
Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba were two slave descendants born in rural Gambia in the 1910s. By following their migration in the period before the outbreak of World War II to Bathurst, the capital of the Colony of the Gambia, this essay focuses on the opportunities and restraints that ambitious young men willing to shake off the social disability of their slave ancestry experienced both in their home contexts and in the urban setting. The cultural…
Migration drivers and migration choice
The notion of migration as being at least partly about 'choice' is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions have considered migration choice as step-wise in nature, involving a separation between 'aspiration' and 'ability' to migrate, whilst stressing a range of non-economic factors that influence migration choices. But such nuances have not prevented the emergence of a significant area of public policy that …
"At the time of the "backway
Backway" is the Gambian term for the outflow of people, mostly via the Mediterranean and oceanic routes that during the 2010s turned the country into one of the highest per capita origin points for sub-Saharan migrants in Europe. From the standpoint of Kerewan, a Gambian rural community proud of its migratory legacy, a mobility rules perspective uncovers the specificity of the "backway" in sensible arenas of village life: household and family net…
The Political Energy of the Backway
During the 2010s, The Gambia came under the spotlight of the European migration regime because of the numbers of its citizens requesting asylum in Europe. Historically sensitive ethnography highlights the specificity of this phase of Gambian migrations and situates it in the country’s political history. The political energy that the “backway”—as undocumented migrations to Europe have been popularly known in The Gambia since the 2000s—manifested a…
Des expériences infra-libératoires à Dakar
Thomas Fouquet est l’auteur d’une recherche ethnographique de longue durée sur la jeunesse subalterne de Dakar. Il a enquêté, en particulier, sur les trajectoires de vie et les expériences des « aventurières de la nuit » dakaroise : les jeunes filles qui fréquentent les boîtes de nuit et les bars de la ville en y cherchant des fortunes diverses, afin de s’affranchir des conditions de dépendance imposées par les rôles reproductifs auxquels elles s…
Du bien-être relationnel à l'aisance de vie
Dans les régions guinéennes de Gaoual et de Koundara, où le pastoralisme peul a prospéré depuis la fin du XXe siècle, la notion pulaar de heɓtaare, communément traduite en français par « liberté », « indépendance » ou encore « bien-être », exprime à la fois l'émancipation, pour les êtres humains, des contraintes politiques, environnementales et socioéconomiques et les conditions de bien-être produites par ce processus d'émancipation. L'étude des …
Dans l'ordinaire de la liberté et de l'émancipation
du Cap une rflexion sur la libert et sur les manires de l'tudier avec les outils de l'anthropologie.L'anne prcdente, en 1989, la fin de la Guerre froide semble marquer le dbut de la mondialisation des thories conomiques et des modes de gouvernance nolibraux, tels qu'ils se sont dvelopps dans l'ancien bloc de l'Ouest depuis les annes 1980, sous le premier ministre britannique de Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) et la prsidence amricaine de Ronald Rea…
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