This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis the current (2012) political crisis Mali, generated by start of new Tuareg nationalist uprising against state, complemented coordinated attack on state both international (AQIM) local Jihadi–Salafi movements, leading coup d’état incumbent President Touré, finallly stalemate great concern community. By pooling sources analysis, group eight scholars tries overall picture. [Un hippopotame et...

ABSTRACT What was the indigénat ? This article approaches this question via three arguments. First, a study of (the regime administrative sanctions applied to colonial subjects) challenges idea that French West Africa formed part an ‘empire law’. Second, dynamic spectrum political statuses developed around until its abolition in 1946. is no less significant than one poles alone, citizens. Third, , narrative reform, and relationship law, bureaucracy, authority illuminate tensions between...

1. Knowing the post-colony 2. A new republic 3. 'French' Muslims in Sudan 4. West Africans as foreigners postimperial France 5. Governing famine 6. Human rights and Saharan prisons.

Abstract Two young men met on a quay at the port in Conakry, Guinea 1946. One, waiting dockside, was Mamadou Madeira Keita, low-level civil servant and archivist. Years later, when he political prisoner Malian Sahara, some would argue that “the first francophone African ethnographer.” The other, descending gangplank, Frenchman Keita had come to meet. Georges Balandier unknown then, but soon become leading figure fields of sociology anthropology. encounter between foundational for both men....

In the summer of 1996, when French policemen stormed Paris' Eglise Saint-Bernard, evicting dozens African immigrants and activists who had taken refuge in church, people both France West Africa surged with anger. Many those lived for years, often an ambiguous legal bureaucratic status (hence their moniker sans-papiers, without papers), they occupied church order to demand regularization status.The sans-papiers' story is complex; see Balibar et al. (1999), Dubois (2000), Fassin (1997),...

Research Article| August 01 2007 Between Empire, Umma, and the Muslim Third World: The French Union African Pilgrims to Mecca, 1946-1958 Gregory Mann; Mann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Baz Lecocq Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-011 Cite Icon Share Twitter Permissions Citation Mann, Lecocq; 1946-1958. 1 2007; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends...

This article argues that an innovative religious movement in postwar French Soudan (Mali) led some administrators and military officers to adopt a new more open stance towards local practices even as they fought hard limit conversion Islam counteract Muslim reform. Meanwhile, although the founder of advocated submission authorities, young men claiming be his messengers attacked elders sorcerers. The suggests sphere Western Sudan was broader than historians have recognized, identities were...

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 countrythatwonitsindependencepeacefully,thenation'sfirstregimewasdeeply...

Writing in his Les Bambara du Ségou et Kaarta , the French colonial administrator and ethnographer Charles Monteil considered family name, or jamu to sum up history of community which bears it: it refers everything concerns ancestors, as well accomplishments current members community, including their turpitudes even alliances, be they fraternal, conjugal, political, supernatural. was right, a certain degree. In Western Sudan, names are weighted with significance. Yet what characterized...

Abstract Much of West Africa (and particularly the Sahel) may be once falling again under military government. This essay asks what, if anything, historians can contribute to an understanding this phenomenon. I argue that writing history and memory government will entail a renewed approach political social theory. It also confronting — just as so many citizens are currently doing peculiar failures democracy in Africa's neoliberal era.

Recensé : Thomas Borrel, Amzat Boukari Yabara, Benoît Collombat, Deltombe, L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir. Une histoire de la Françafrique, Paris, Seuil, 2021, 1008 p. Traduction Louise Barré et Camille Evrard.

In recent years political changes in Mali have opened up new research opportunities for historians and other social scientists interested the country's colonial post-colonial past. With government has come a change administrative attitudes regarding access to local archives, words those held at level of cercle . Although these archives can be terrible condition, they contain precious information unique each course my own I been able gain two such southern Mali, summer 1996 again 1998. Using...

Résumé L’article traite des discours politiques contemporains sur la colonisation en Afrique et l’historiographie qui les informe. Deux métaphores étroitement liées jouent un rôle central dans l’analyse : dette, souvent décrite comme une « dette de sang » facture », qu’on oppose ici au diagnostic d’une fracture sociale coloniale. En partant question simplicité trompeuse – controverse autour pensions payées aux anciens combattants africains l’armée coloniale française on étudiera le donné à...

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 annualmeetingoftheAfricanStudiesAssociationinNashville,Tennessee,in...

After analytic training, graduates position their newly acquired identity as “psychoanalyst” in the context of broader career, contemplating whether to start new cases, adapting knowledge base psychotherapy practice, and deciding how focus professional personal interests going forward. Using questionnaires interviews, Columbia Postgraduate Analytic Practice Study (CPAPS) has prospectively tracked career trajectory 69 76 (91%) from University Center for Psychoanalytic Training Research since...