George Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 80010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3319-3633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Les historiens disent des choses qui fâchent »
Endam Bilaali. Renégocier les identités en situation post-esclavagiste est un documentaire de 2014 réalisé par Ibrahima Thioub, Abderrahmane Ngaïdé et Ibrahima Seck. Le film explore les effets persistants de l’esclavage dans la région du Fouta Toro, dans la moyenne vallée du Sénégal, notamment la manière dont les identités sociales sont perçues, négociées et transformées après la fin de l’esclavage. Donner la parole aux descendants d’esclaves per…
L’histoire comme cause. Historicités en dispute en Afrique
Les variétés de vignes résistantes (VR) aux maladies pourraient être une réponse pertinente aux défis contemporains de la viticulture. Cependant, la pluralité des acteurs impliqués complexifie les décisions, générant des discours et pratiques hétérogènes, qui contribuent à freiner leur adoption. La présente étude analyse l’évolution des discours médiatiques sur les VR en France, via une revue croisée de la presse généraliste et spécialisée, compl…
We Don’t Operate from a Blueprint”: An Interview with Noor Nieftagodien on Co-Producing History in Post-Apartheid South Africa
L’historien Noor Nieftagodien est co-directeur du History Workshop de l’université de Witswatersrand (Johannesburg). Dans cet entretien, Nieftagodien analyse la trajectoire du History Workshop depuis sa création dans les années 1970 jusqu’à nos jours. Le History Workshop met au centre de sa pratique l’idée de « co-production » de l’histoire, une vision de l’histoire comprise comme un projet collectif dépendant de la collaboration active des membr…
A Return to Khaki Rule? Democracy and Africa's Lost History of Military Government
Much of West Africa (and particularly the Sahel) may be once falling again under military government. This essay asks what, if anything, historians of Africa can contribute to an understanding of this phenomenon. I argue that writing the history and understanding the memory of military government will entail a renewed approach to political history and social theory. It will also entail confronting — just as so many citizens are currently doing — …
French Colonialism and The Making of the Modern Sahel
French colonial rule played an important but not determinative role in making the modern Sahel. By the 1950s, the region was more integrated politically and infrastructurally than it would be in the decades that followed. At independence, the new governments of the Sahel featured identical, if parallel, political institutions modeled on those of the French Fifth Republic (1958–). They also shared a secular character, a military culture, a history…
Becoming a Training and Supervising Analyst: Interviews from the Columbia Postgraduate Analytic Practice Study
Although much has been written about the training and supervising analyst system (TSA), its role in analysts' professional development has not been empirically studied. The Columbia Psychoanalytic Practice Study (CPAPS) is a longitudinal study of the careers of graduates from the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Interviews with 29/37 (78%) analysts graduating from 2003-2009 were analyzed using grounded theory. Our researc…
Professional and Personal Development After Psychoanalytic Training: Interviews with Early Career Analysts
After analytic training, graduates position their newly acquired identity as “psychoanalyst” in the context of their broader career, contemplating whether to start new analytic cases, adapting their new knowledge base to psychotherapy practice, and deciding how to focus their professional and personal interests going forward. Using questionnaires and interviews, the Columbia Postgraduate Analytic Practice Study (CPAPS) has prospectively tracked t…
An Historian’s Theory of Social Change
The article argues that the concept of “claims-making” has been an important and influential thread in the work of Frederick Cooper. It explores the utility and advantages – as well as the characteristic rigor – of this theory of social change and what it implies. It then turns to the potential limits of its adoption within Africanist historiography and African Studies more broadly
Introduction: Frederick Cooper and the Historiography of Africa
This short essay introduces a set of five papers that examine the place Frederick Cooper’s scholarship occupies in the historiography of Africa
K athleen K eller . Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa
In her short and lively Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa, Kathleen Keller offers a tightly framed account of the efforts of the French imperial state to maintain surveillance of individuals deemed suspicious in French West Africa between the world wars. These colonial suspects represent a motley crew. Some were well-known dissidents and activists, like Louis Hunkanrin of Dahomey. Oth…
French Africa's Futures Past
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is, as its author Frederick Cooper tells us, a book about politics. It is equally a book about process. Both the politics and the process prove remarkably fluid, and restoring that fluidity to what has come to be seen as a static scenario is one of the book's key achievements. Cooper's story opens with France and its empire in shambles in the last years of World W…
Experience as Evidence in Africanist Historiography
This paper observes that historians of Africa often rely on experience for evidence, and it asks whether we do so with adequate rigor
Andrew Arsan. Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa
Journal Article Andrew Arsan. Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa. Get access Andrew Arsan. Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii, 341. $50.00. Gregory Mann Gregory Mann Columbia University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume…
From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality
This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin stretch of land bordering the Sahara - became the subjects of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. Just when its states were strongest and most ambitious, …
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
Anti-Colonialism and Social Science: Georges Balandier, Madeira Keita, and 'the Colonial Situation' in French Africa
Two young men met on a quay at the port in Conakry, Guinea in 1946. One, waiting dockside, was Mamadou Madeira Keita, a low-level civil servant and archivist. Years later, when he was a political prisoner in the Malian Sahara, some would argue that he was 'the first francophone African ethnographer.' The other, descending the gangplank, was the Frenchman Keita had come to meet. Georges Balandier was unknown then, but would soon become a leading f…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie L'autre moitié du soleil Paris, Gallimard, [2006] 2008, 499 p
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What Was Theindigénat? The 'Empire of Law' in French West Africa
What was the indigénat ? This article approaches this question via three arguments. First, a study of the indigénat (the regime of administrative sanctions applied to colonial subjects) challenges the idea that French West Africa formed part of an 'empire of law'. Second, a dynamic spectrum of political statuses developed around the indigénat until its abolition in 1946. This spectrum is no less significant than one of its poles alone, that of co…
Colonialism now: Contemporary anticolonialism and the “facture coloniale”
L’article traite des discours politiques contemporains sur la colonisation en Afrique et sur l’historiographie qui les informe. Deux métaphores étroitement liées jouent un rôle central dans l’analyse : la dette, souvent décrite comme une « dette de sang » et la « facture », qu’on oppose ici au diagnostic d’une « fracture » sociale coloniale. En partant d’une question d’une simplicité trompeuse – la controverse autour de la dette de sang et des pe…
Between Empire, Umma , and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958
Research Article| August 01 2007 Between Empire, Umma, and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958 Gregory Mann; Gregory Mann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Baz Lecocq Baz Lecocq Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite…
Colonialism Now: Contemporary Anticolonialism and the « facture coloniale
L'article traite des discours politiques contemporains sur la colonisation en Afrique et sur l'historiographie qui les informe. Deux métaphores étroitement liées jouent un rôle central dans l'analyse : la dette, souvent décrite comme une « dette de sang » et la « facture », qu'on oppose ici au diagnostic d'une « fracture » sociale coloniale. En partant d'une question d'une simplicité trompeuse - la controverse autour de la dette de sang et des pe…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
Genova, James E. — Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956: New York, Peter Lang (“Francophone Cultures & Literatures” 45), 2…
At the close of the 1950s, in a time of innocence and in the first blush of courtship, Senegalese leader Léopold Sedar Senghor and his Soudanese counterpart Modibo Keita made a pilgrimage to Mali’s Dogon plateau to witness “authentic” African culture in what was then still the French Soudan. Political independence and a proposed federation between the two emerging nations were on the table. While the spectacle of masked dances probably did not se…
Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
Gregory Mann, assistant professor; Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa, The American Historical Review, Volume 110, Issue 2, 1 April 200
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
What Was Theindigénat? The 'Empire of Law' in French West Africa
What was the indigénat ? This article approaches this question via three arguments. First, a study of the indigénat (the regime of administrative sanctions applied to colonial subjects) challenges the idea that French West Africa formed part of an 'empire of law'. Second, a dynamic spectrum of political statuses developed around the indigénat until its abolition in 1946. This spectrum is no less significant than one of its poles alone, that of co…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
Gregory Mann, assistant professor; Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa, The American Historical Review, Volume 110, Issue 2, 1 April 200
Immigrants and Arguments in France and West Africa
In the summer of 1996, when French policemen stormed Paris' Eglise Saint-Bernard, evicting dozens of African immigrants and activists who had taken refuge in the church, people in both France and West Africa surged with anger. Many of those immigrants had lived in France for years, often with an ambiguous legal and bureaucratic status (hence their moniker sans-papiers, those without papers), and they had occupied the church in order to demand the…
Anti-Colonialism and Social Science: Georges Balandier, Madeira Keita, and 'the Colonial Situation' in French Africa
Two young men met on a quay at the port in Conakry, Guinea in 1946. One, waiting dockside, was Mamadou Madeira Keita, a low-level civil servant and archivist. Years later, when he was a political prisoner in the Malian Sahara, some would argue that he was 'the first francophone African ethnographer.' The other, descending the gangplank, was the Frenchman Keita had come to meet. Georges Balandier was unknown then, but would soon become a leading f…
Between Empire, Umma , and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958
Research Article| August 01 2007 Between Empire, Umma, and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958 Gregory Mann; Gregory Mann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Baz Lecocq Baz Lecocq Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite…
Chronic ear disease as a possible reason for trephination
It is rare for any reason to be deduced for the operation of trephination. A Peruvian skull is presented with three trephine holes on one side and evidence of the chronic ear infection known as cholesteatoma on the other. This infection would have produced a facial paralysis on the same side. It is suggested that there would have been an awareness of the connection between the motor area of the brain on one side and the movement of the opposite s…
Introduction Writing Histories of an African Post-Colony: Modibo Keita's Mali, 1960-1968
INTRODUCTION WRITING HISTORIES OF AN AFRICAN POST-COLONY: MODIBO KEITA'S MALI, 1960-1968 Baz Lecocq and Gregory Mann ItisonlyMalirepresentfittingshouldthatthefruitappearthefirstofintwoeditedMandeconferencevolumeStudiesonpanels,the.ThehistoryonepapersheldofModiboincollected2000Keita'satherethe MalishouldappearinMandeStudies.Thepaperscollectedhere representthefruitoftwoconferencepanels,oneheldin2000atthe annualmeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociationi…
Fetishizing Religion: Allah Koura and French ‘Islamic Policy’ in Late Colonial French Soudan (Mali)
This article argues that an innovative religious movement in postwar French Soudan (Mali) led some French administrators and military officers to adopt a new and more open stance towards local religious practices even as they fought hard to limit conversion to Islam and to counteract Muslim reform. Meanwhile, although the founder of the movement advocated submission to local authorities, young men claiming to be his messengers attacked elders and…
Colonialism Now: Contemporary Anticolonialism and the « facture coloniale
L'article traite des discours politiques contemporains sur la colonisation en Afrique et sur l'historiographie qui les informe. Deux métaphores étroitement liées jouent un rôle central dans l'analyse : la dette, souvent décrite comme une « dette de sang » et la « facture », qu'on oppose ici au diagnostic d'une « fracture » sociale coloniale. En partant d'une question d'une simplicité trompeuse - la controverse autour de la dette de sang et des pe…
Violence, Dignity and Mali's New Model Army, 1960-68
VIOLENCE, DIGNITY AND MALI'S NEW MODEL ARMY, 1960-681 Gregory Mann Independenceexception.nationalistcamestruggle,Tradesoftlyunionists,andtomostitwasWestmerchants,aformerAfricanteacherandstates,bureaucratswhoandmovedMaliledintowasthetheno exception.Tradeunionists,merchants,andbureaucratsledthe nationaliststruggle,anditwasaformerteacherwhomovedintothe governor'smansion,asSoudanFrançaisbecameMali.Yet,paradoxicallyfora countrythatwonitsindependencepe…
What's in an Alias? Family Names, Individual Histories, and Historical Method in the Western Sudan
Writing in his Les Bambara du Ségou et du Kaarta , the French colonial administrator and ethnographer Charles Monteil considered the family name, or jamu , to sum up the history of the community which bears it: it refers to everything which concerns the ancestors, as well as the accomplishments of current members of the community, including their turpitudes and even their alliances, be they fraternal, conjugal, political, or supernatural. Monteil…
From Frontier to Backwater: Economy and Society in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920
Dust to Dust: A User's Guide to Local Archives in Mali
In recent years political changes in Mali have opened up new research opportunities for historians and other social scientists interested in the country's colonial and post-colonial past. With the new government has come a change in administrative attitudes regarding access to local archives, in other words those held at the level of the cercle . Although these archives can be in terrible condition, they contain precious information unique to eac…
A Return to Khaki Rule? Democracy and Africa's Lost History of Military Government
Much of West Africa (and particularly the Sahel) may be once falling again under military government. This essay asks what, if anything, historians of Africa can contribute to an understanding of this phenomenon. I argue that writing the history and understanding the memory of military government will entail a renewed approach to political history and social theory. It will also entail confronting — just as so many citizens are currently doing — …
Becoming a Training and Supervising Analyst: Interviews from the Columbia Postgraduate Analytic Practice Study
Although much has been written about the training and supervising analyst system (TSA), its role in analysts' professional development has not been empirically studied. The Columbia Psychoanalytic Practice Study (CPAPS) is a longitudinal study of the careers of graduates from the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Interviews with 29/37 (78%) analysts graduating from 2003-2009 were analyzed using grounded theory. Our researc…
Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
The Navy Rehabilitation Program
tary duty or return to private life as strong, useful, self-sustaining citizens. Winning the war is the fundamental objective in this rehabilitation program, just as it is in every other activity or operation of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard. It means a great deal to a man who has made the Navy his career or is fired with intense patriotism to know that an injury received in combat is not necessarily going to put him on the shelf. It is …
Cultures in Collisicm: The Introduction of Canadian and U.S. Television Broadcast Policies
This publication is a collection of papers together with associated comments which were presented to a 1983 conference on Canadian-U.S. communications policy. The conference was sponsored by Syracuse University, the University of Toronto and the Americas Society with the assistance of the William H. Donner Foundation. Since the text lists no editor, I assume that this collection includes all of the major presentations made at the conference
The Dynamics of Hutterite Society: An Analytical Approach
Chronic ear disease as a possible reason for trephination
It is rare for any reason to be deduced for the operation of trephination. A Peruvian skull is presented with three trephine holes on one side and evidence of the chronic ear infection known as cholesteatoma on the other. This infection would have produced a facial paralysis on the same side. It is suggested that there would have been an awareness of the connection between the motor area of the brain on one side and the movement of the opposite s…
Institutional Dynamics of Scientific Change: Ben-David's Legacy
Professor Joseph Ben-David devoted much of his life's work to the definition and investigation of central topics in the sociology of science. This volume presents a generous sample of his research, twenty-six papers in all, and contains his most important writings on professional roles, scientific norms and the institutional structure of science. Two previously unpublished articles were prepared for inclusion, as well as a biographical introducti…
Dust to Dust: A User's Guide to Local Archives in Mali
In recent years political changes in Mali have opened up new research opportunities for historians and other social scientists interested in the country's colonial and post-colonial past. With the new government has come a change in administrative attitudes regarding access to local archives, in other words those held at the level of the cercle . Although these archives can be in terrible condition, they contain precious information unique to eac…
Estudo de soroconversão com formulações da vacina Biken CAM-70 contra sarampo
OBJETIVO: Comparar a resposta sorológica induzida por formulações com diferentes concentrações de vírus da vacina contra sarampo da cepa Biken CAM-70. MÉTODOS: Crianças sadias de 9 a 18 meses de um centro de saúde do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, cujos responsáveis concordaram em participar, foram randomizadas em três grupos vacinados com concentrações de 5.000, 1.000 ou 200 CCID50 (50% Tissue Culture Infective Dose). Os participantes e o pessoal da pesqui…
From Frontier to Backwater: Economy and Society in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920
Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
What's in an Alias? Family Names, Individual Histories, and Historical Method in the Western Sudan
Writing in his Les Bambara du Ségou et du Kaarta , the French colonial administrator and ethnographer Charles Monteil considered the family name, or jamu , to sum up the history of the community which bears it: it refers to everything which concerns the ancestors, as well as the accomplishments of current members of the community, including their turpitudes and even their alliances, be they fraternal, conjugal, political, or supernatural. Monteil…
Introduction Writing Histories of an African Post-Colony: Modibo Keita's Mali, 1960-1968
INTRODUCTION WRITING HISTORIES OF AN AFRICAN POST-COLONY: MODIBO KEITA'S MALI, 1960-1968 Baz Lecocq and Gregory Mann ItisonlyMalirepresentfittingshouldthatthefruitappearthefirstofintwoeditedMandeconferencevolumeStudiesonpanels,the.ThehistoryonepapersheldofModiboincollected2000Keita'satherethe MalishouldappearinMandeStudies.Thepaperscollectedhere representthefruitoftwoconferencepanels,oneheldin2000atthe annualmeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociationi…
Violence, Dignity and Mali's New Model Army, 1960-68
VIOLENCE, DIGNITY AND MALI'S NEW MODEL ARMY, 1960-681 Gregory Mann Independenceexception.nationalistcamestruggle,Tradesoftlyunionists,andtomostitwasWestmerchants,aformerAfricanteacherandstates,bureaucratswhoandmovedMaliledintowasthetheno exception.Tradeunionists,merchants,andbureaucratsledthe nationaliststruggle,anditwasaformerteacherwhomovedintothe governor'smansion,asSoudanFrançaisbecameMali.Yet,paradoxicallyfora countrythatwonitsindependencepe…
Fetishizing Religion: Allah Koura and French ‘Islamic Policy’ in Late Colonial French Soudan (Mali)
This article argues that an innovative religious movement in postwar French Soudan (Mali) led some French administrators and military officers to adopt a new and more open stance towards local religious practices even as they fought hard to limit conversion to Islam and to counteract Muslim reform. Meanwhile, although the founder of the movement advocated submission to local authorities, young men claiming to be his messengers attacked elders and…
Immigrants and Arguments in France and West Africa
In the summer of 1996, when French policemen stormed Paris' Eglise Saint-Bernard, evicting dozens of African immigrants and activists who had taken refuge in the church, people in both France and West Africa surged with anger. Many of those immigrants had lived in France for years, often with an ambiguous legal and bureaucratic status (hence their moniker sans-papiers, those without papers), and they had occupied the church in order to demand the…
Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
Gregory Mann, assistant professor; Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa, The American Historical Review, Volume 110, Issue 2, 1 April 200
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
Genova, James E. — Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956: New York, Peter Lang (“Francophone Cultures & Literatures” 45), 2…
At the close of the 1950s, in a time of innocence and in the first blush of courtship, Senegalese leader Léopold Sedar Senghor and his Soudanese counterpart Modibo Keita made a pilgrimage to Mali’s Dogon plateau to witness “authentic” African culture in what was then still the French Soudan. Political independence and a proposed federation between the two emerging nations were on the table. While the spectacle of masked dances probably did not se…
Colonialism now: Contemporary anticolonialism and the “facture coloniale”
L’article traite des discours politiques contemporains sur la colonisation en Afrique et sur l’historiographie qui les informe. Deux métaphores étroitement liées jouent un rôle central dans l’analyse : la dette, souvent décrite comme une « dette de sang » et la « facture », qu’on oppose ici au diagnostic d’une « fracture » sociale coloniale. En partant d’une question d’une simplicité trompeuse – la controverse autour de la dette de sang et des pe…
Between Empire, Umma , and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958
Research Article| August 01 2007 Between Empire, Umma, and the Muslim Third World: The French Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958 Gregory Mann; Gregory Mann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Baz Lecocq Baz Lecocq Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-011 Cite Icon Cite…
Colonialism Now: Contemporary Anticolonialism and the « facture coloniale
L'article traite des discours politiques contemporains sur la colonisation en Afrique et sur l'historiographie qui les informe. Deux métaphores étroitement liées jouent un rôle central dans l'analyse : la dette, souvent décrite comme une « dette de sang » et la « facture », qu'on oppose ici au diagnostic d'une « fracture » sociale coloniale. En partant d'une question d'une simplicité trompeuse - la controverse autour de la dette de sang et des pe…
What Was Theindigénat? The 'Empire of Law' in French West Africa
What was the indigénat ? This article approaches this question via three arguments. First, a study of the indigénat (the regime of administrative sanctions applied to colonial subjects) challenges the idea that French West Africa formed part of an 'empire of law'. Second, a dynamic spectrum of political statuses developed around the indigénat until its abolition in 1946. This spectrum is no less significant than one of its poles alone, that of co…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie L'autre moitié du soleil Paris, Gallimard, [2006] 2008, 499 p
An abstract 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
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
Anti-Colonialism and Social Science: Georges Balandier, Madeira Keita, and 'the Colonial Situation' in French Africa
Two young men met on a quay at the port in Conakry, Guinea in 1946. One, waiting dockside, was Mamadou Madeira Keita, a low-level civil servant and archivist. Years later, when he was a political prisoner in the Malian Sahara, some would argue that he was 'the first francophone African ethnographer.' The other, descending the gangplank, was the Frenchman Keita had come to meet. Georges Balandier was unknown then, but would soon become a leading f…
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