Bringing together a wide diversity of authors based on three continents and from different disciplinary backgrounds, this book offers analyses of a wide range of factors that characterize and that are shaping the future of the African Sahel. In forty chapters, organized in nine …
"Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asi…
Benevolent secularism: a theory of the religious politics of democracy -- Secular emergence in Ireland: home rule and rome rule -- Secular evolution in post-Catholic Ireland -- Secular emergence in Senegal: Laicite in translation -- Secular evolution: Sopi and institutional chan…
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia…
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia…
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia…
"Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to…
This monograph focuses on Gnokholo, a precolonial province of Senegal that has long been landlocked because of its eastern position and inhabited by Mandingoans. The decline of the Malian empire in the 15th century has been confined to a situation of geographical marginality in …
"Cet ouvrage étudie les migrations clandestines du Sénégal vers l'Europe à travers l'étude des déterminants économiques, politiques, sociaux, culturels et symboliques qui sont à l'origine des départs. Il propose une typologie des acteurs impliqués dans ces voyages et plonge le l…
"Au départ, il s'agissait de simples notes que l'auteur utilisait lors de conférences qu'il donnait sur Cheikh Anta Diop. Mais, avec l'expérience, il lui a semblé que ces notes, ces lexiques schématiques, ces aide-mémoire pourraient s'avérer quelque peu utiles pour des jeunes en…
Une introduction à la vie et à l'oeuvre du sénégalais Cheikh Anta Diop, auteur de "Nations nègres et culture", un texte majeur dans la renaissance du monde noir. A travers ses ouvrages, il réinvente, au coeur des luttes de l'après Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'antiquité négro-phara…
