Gloires oubliées et mémoires reconstruites
Les guerres de Gumbu du Sahel (Mali)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3155650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claude Meillassoux (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 132 |
| Pages | 567-585 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/cea.1993.1493 |
| OpenAlex | W2051397855 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
C. Meillassoux — Forgotten Glory and Reconstructed Memories: The Gumbu Wars in the Sahel (Mali). Gumbu is on the edge of the Sahel, where sedentary farming peoples actively par-ticipated in trade and conflicts within this transition zone. Fighting first broke out between Gumbu and rival, neighboring, even related political formations. Alliances and conflicts were not based on ethnie groups. Through these wars, people gloried in their group and asserted their families' political ambition; the social wounds these wars inflicted on various parties have left lasting memories. The nature of this warfare changed as more powerful states (Segu, Masina or Dina) brought pressure to bear. These states, developing thanks to the Atlantic slave trade, came to arbitrate conflicts in this region. Their intervention—some- times at the request of one of the parties to a conflict, sometimes on their own—broke the warrior spirit of emulation and ended by placing valor in the service of El Haj Umar's military interests
Ancient history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Glory · Intervention (counseling) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · History · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |