West African Challenge to Empire - Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-85255-479-1
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Western African Studies

Contributes to the anthropology of colonialism, the military history of indigenous Africa, and to theoretical debates on structure and agency.

Winner of the 2001 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology

The anti-colonial war in the Volta and Bani region of West Africa in 1915-16 was one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa, yet it is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. This book combines cultural and sociological analysis to explore the origins of the movement, its strategy, the reasons for its initial success, and its legacy for the region after its defeat.

North America: Ohio U Press

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saul, Mahir

Royer, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 The West Volta in the Nineteenth Century
2 The Muslim Houses of the Volta and the Beginnings of French Occupation
3 An Incomplete Colonial Occupation
4 Before the Storm
5 The Call to Arms
6 The First Victories of the Anticolonial Party
7 Terror as Strategy: The War in the Cercle of Dedougou
8 The War in the Cercle of Bobo-Dioulasso
9 The Pilgrim and the Shrines: The War in Koutiala, San, and Bandiagara
10 East of the Volta: The War in the Cercle of Ouagadougou
Conclusion
Appendix: Letters Used as Evidence in the Muslim Conspiracy Trials

Über Autor(innen)

Royer, Patrick
Patrick Royer is Adjunct Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut. He is co-author of West African Challenge to Empire, which was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Society, and author of La guerre en miroir, conquête et pacification au Soudan Occidental [War, Conquest, and Pacification in Western Sudan] (2019), which received the Robert Cornevin Prize from the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer in Paris.

Saul, Mahir
Mahir Saul is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War.