"Exploring the complexities of identity in precolonial West Africa, Makhroufi Ousmane Traorâe shows the Soninke community's resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of ethnic belonging. Traorâe highlights the varied ways in which West Africans crafted and negotiated their identities"--
"Exploring the complexities of identity in precolonial West Africa, Makhroufi Ousmane Traorâe shows the Soninke community's resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of ethnic belonging. Traorâe highlights the varied ways in which West Africans crafted and negotiated their identities"--
Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré is Assistant Professor at Pomona College and an African scholar whose research primarily focuses on the history of the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave trades. He was awarded the 2022 Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship. With this fellowship, Traoré endeavors to shine a light on the unheard voices of African Egyptologists with the publication of a textbook featuring African perspectives on Egyptology.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Between the Sahara and the Atlantic Ocean: 1. The ethnic-state of Gajaaga 2. African slavery versus the slave trade(s) Part II. Atlantic Slavery, Kingship, and Worship of Nature: 3. Trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic Gajaaga 4. Matriarchy, ecology, and Atlantic slave trade Part III. Gajaaga at the centre, the French Empire at the Edge: 5. Resisting the French empire 6. Bridging empire and hinterland Conclusion.
Introduction Part I. Between the Sahara and the Atlantic Ocean: 1. The ethnic-state of Gajaaga 2. African slavery versus the slave trade(s) Part II. Atlantic Slavery, Kingship, and Worship of Nature: 3. Trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic Gajaaga 4. Matriarchy, ecology, and Atlantic slave trade Part III. Gajaaga at the centre, the French Empire at the Edge: 5. Resisting the French empire 6. Bridging empire and hinterland Conclusion.
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