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Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine …
"Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine…
Muridism is a Sufi order which originated in Senegal, West Africa, at the end of the 19th century and is now in rapid expansion with the Senegalese emigrants around the world. Among the Murids the belief is strong that the founder Shaykh Amadou Bamba and his mother Mame Diarra B…
This is a study of a 20th-century Sufi revival in West Africa. Seesemann's work evolves around the emergence and spread of the 'Community of the Divine Flood, ' established in 1929 by Ibrahim Niasse, a leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order from Senegal.
"Yves Péhaut, professeur honoraire de géographie à l'Université Bordeaux Montaigne, se consacre ici à l'étude de l'une des principales maisons de commerce bordelaises, impliquée dans le commerce de l'arachide avec l'Afrique et la production d'huile. Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans la…
