Visual Griots, is a socio-historical study of the meaning, function and aesthetic significance of photographs in Mali, West Africa from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the dynamic periods of colonialism, national independence, socialism and democracy, its analyses focuses on …
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This dissertation explores how local ideas about racial difference developed in the Niger Bend region of Northern Mali in West Africa. Local prejudices based on skin color and physical characteristics existed in Northern Mali long before the arrival of Europeans. Local intellect…
This thesis is a multi-sited investigation of the campaign against excision in urban Mali and of the responses to it. Fieldwork took place in 1997-1998 through feminist action-research with a local women's association that carried out programs against excision. Part I situates t…
This dissertation chronicles how oral traditions describe the early history of the town of Musadu in Guinea-Conakry, and discusses how these traditions broaden our understanding of Musadu and West Africa's past. From the mid-nineteenth century to the late-twentieth century, more…
In the early 1990s multi-party elections were held in Mali for the first time replacing the decades-old dictatorship of Moussa Troare. The result was a dramatic shift in Malian society including: the opening of the economy, a proliferation of religious expression, and the develo…
Subject: Introduction: a sense of urban Africa -- Representing Bamako -- Artistiya -- Ethics and aesthetics -- A pious poetics of place -- Money trouble -- Afropolitan patriotism -- Conclusion: an Africanist's query
Introduction: a sense of urban Africa -- Representing Bamako -- Artistiya -- Ethics and aesthetics -- A pious poetics of place -- Money trouble -- Afropolitan patriotism -- Conclusion: an Africanist's query.
Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali's booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture,…
