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Local elites resisted, diverted and appropriated metropolitan attempts to end or restrict access to and control of slaves. At the same time slaves were able to liberate themselves and take part in mass emancipations. The situation was transformed by the introduction of new economic opportunities and politicisation and social change among slaves themselves. North America: Ohio U Press ... Read more

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This ground-breaking book examines the verbal art of women from three Sahelian societies. It relates West African women’s voices to a broader literary, political, and cultural context and succeeds in crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries. In her book, Sidikou argues that through verbal art women create a ritual space that serves as the locus of both their creativity and their efforts to negotiate power as well as to affirm their own selfhood. By offering a new way of approaching oral literature in West Africa, this study re-thinks verbal art by and about women. It also debunks assumptions about African women by suggesting a re-vision of what has been written about them.

This significant and unique study will have a tremendous impact on research and teaching in general and will make a strong contribution not only to African studies, but to cultural studies, feminism, theory, and education. ... Read more

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Phenomenal!!
To call this book groundbreaking is an understatement.This intriguing study reshapes many of the Western assumptions about African women with a truly unique and refreshing viewpoint.Anyone who is interested in African studies, women's studies, oral history, etc. would be doing themselves a great disservice to not have this book in their collection.This is the book that many scholars have been waiting for in that it is truly the premier source of information of its type on the market.You will not be disappointed! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 8545 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Painting fictions/painting history: modernist pioneers at Senegal's Ecole des Arts.(Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism)
Author: Joanna Grabski
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 39Issue: 1Page: 38(14)

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This is the first major study of a pivotal episode in West African history, the great railroad strike of 1947-48. ... Read more

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In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this colse involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life. ... Read more

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The Fascinating scope of African Religion.
Baum has done an excellent job at capturing the impact of slavery on traditional African religion. The fact that an often ignored subject is gaining insightful scolarly attention is great and represents a definiteprogression within the feild. ... Read more

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Bundu is an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr. Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu's history. He analyzes the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state's response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century. ... Read more

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African Enlightenment
Michael Gomez is the leading authority on the former African nation of Bundu. Now part of Senegal, Bundu was the birthplace of one of Canada's first settlers, Richard Pierpoint. Professor Gomez's thorough research intothe history of this area of Africa helped my brother David and Itremendously in the completion of our book "A Stolen Life: Searchingfor Richard Pierpoint." Gomez's book will enlighten those who areinterested in Africa's past and present. ... Read more