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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures, maps and tables -- Preface -- Chapter one Introduction: pastoralists under pressure? -- PART I: ETHNICITY -- Chapter two Why are there so many pastoral groups in eastern Africa -- Chapter three Socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-linguistic diversity among the Fulbe of the Sudan Republic -- Chapter four Prototypes and ethnic categorization on the terms Pullo and Fulbe in Maasina (Mali) -- Chapter five Ethnic change and continuity among the Fulbe of Aadamaawa Nigeria the view from the household -- Chapter six Les stratifications des structures politico-sociales de la société traditionelle au Fuuta Jaloo évolution et transformation -- PART II: ECOLOGY AND POLITICS -- Chapter seven Fulbe livestock raising and environmental change in Northern Côte d'Ivoire -- Chapter eight Nouvelles techniques d'élevage en savanes, nouvelles inegalités (Aadamaawa, Cameroon) -- Chapter nine The end of the herding contract decreasing complementary linkages between Fulbe pastoralists and Dendi agriculturalists in northern Benin -- Chapter ten Dimensions sociales et politiques de l'expansion pastorale en zone semi-humide ivoirienne -- Chapter eleven Ecological insecurity and Fulbe pastoral society in the Niger Bend -- PART III: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION -- Chapter twelve Pastoralism under pressure? - understanding social change in Fulbe society -- Chapter thirteen The pastoral poor: hazard, crisis and insecurity in Fulbe society in Central Mali -- Chapter fourteen Mutations et crise d'identité au Fuuta Jaloo: la fin du pastoralisme? -- Chapter fifteen L'expulsion des Fulbe de la rive mauritanienne du fleuve Sénégal en 1989: répétition dans l'histoire ou catastrophe -- Chapter sixteen Fulbe communities in Kaarta (northwestern Mali) three hundred years of survival and transformation -- Glossary.

This study focuses on Bamako, the capital of Mali, that dominates the country's urban landscape. Acentral premise of policy-making in cities is that the flexibility, practicality, and focus of local governments make them ideal players to understand and respond to the needs of their citizens. Indeed, cities mostly aim their problem-solving at local conditions. In Mali, the economic importance of the capital city cannot be understated – it is the nerve center of the national economy. If the capital, Bamako, were to be removed, Mali would lose 36 percent of GDP. Thus, reforms and investments aimed at tackling urban development challenges in the capital will have knock-on effects on national economic development. This report also demonstrates how a variety of data could be used for urban innovations: opportunistic data, which is collected for one purpose and then used for another (such as data owned by cellphone companies and then used to understand urban mobility); purposely-sensed data, which is collected using cheap and ubiquitous sensors that can be deployed in public spaces (for instance, to better understand land and building use); and user-generated data, which comes from engaging people through social media platforms or crowdsourcing (for instance, through Open Street Map communities to track urban infrastructure investments and use). A summary of recommendations for unleashing Bamako's potential includes coordinating land use and connective infrastructure, financing and managing better public service delivery, and investing in urban institutions.

Les Rois de Ségou ("The Kings of Segu") is a television series from Mali directed by Boubacar Sidibé, released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Mali's independence (22 September 1960). Together with another film released at about the same time, Samanyana Basi ("Basi from the village of Samanyana"), it is largely based on oral traditions pertaining to the Bamanadominated state of Segu (ca. 1700–1860). The film was originally shot in French; after a first showing, it was dubbed in Bamana due to popular demand. The director employed several strategies to best adapt this oral tradition to the screen: citations from the songs are preserved (in the original Bamana); the role of dialogue is reinforced in order to make up for the disappearance of the bard's narrative voice; and the dialogues are laden with adages, thus approximating the characteristics of bardic speech. The music draws not only on that traditionally associated with the epic, but also on a full range of Bamana and non-Bamana, Malian traditional and contemporary music. Dramatic and acting styles are furthermore influenced by the traditional Bamana kòtèba theatre, as well as by the foreign (especially Latin American) television soap operas widely viewed in Mali. Though the subject is ostensibly the past, the social and political critique of contemporary Mali forms the implicit subtext. Inasmuch as Malians of all backgrounds have been highly interested by this series, it evidences that it fosters the emergence of a sense of national identity.

L'analyse de la littérature sur l'influence de la Banque mondiale dans les politiques nationales d'éducation fait ressortir, dans la plupart des cas, de nombreuses lacunes théoriques et méthodologiques qui ne permettent pas de saisir finement cette influence, en particulier en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone. C'est pourquoi cet article, après avoir présenté les grandes tendances de la littérature sur la question, donne quelques pistes pour repenser l'influence de la Banque mondiale et propose des exemples à partir de pays spécifiques, le Mali et le Sénégal.RETHINKING THE WORLD BANK'S INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION POLICIES IN FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICAAn analysis of the literature on the World Bank's influence on national education policies indicates that, in the majority of cases, this influence is difficult to discern, in particular in Francophone West Africa, because of significant theoretical and methodological gaps. This article presents the major currents in the literature and suggests avenues to rethink the influence of the World Bank, based on examples from Mali and Senegal. ; L'analyse de la littérature sur l'influence de la Banque mondiale dans les politiques nationales d'éducation fait ressortir, dans la plupart des cas, de nombreuses lacunes théoriques et méthodologiques qui ne permettent pas de saisir finement cette influence, en particulier en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone. C'est pourquoi cet article, après avoir présenté les grandes tendances de la littérature sur la question, donne quelques pistes pour repenser l'influence de la Banque mondiale et propose des exemples à partir de pays spécifiques, le Mali et le Sénégal.

What occurs when local residents travel, but also continually return home, and become increasingly self-conscious about their culture and history and how these are represented? The goal of this essay is to understand the roles of culture and memory in a traveling performance of Tuareg musicians from Mali, and to show how multiple viewpoints are alternately woven together and not woven together in the fabric of the performance event and wider processes surrounding it. International performances by touring African musicians and singers offer rich perspectives on current anthropological issues of culture, identity, and memory in globalization and diaspora. This essay draws on data from longterm field research in Tuareg (Kel Tamajaq) communities in Niger and Mali, West Africa and among Tamajaq-speaking expatriates and travelers in France and the United States. Central here is a case study of a Tuareg international musical touring ensemble called Tartit from northern Mali. There is analysis of their origins in the "home culture" and background on the Tuareg more generally. This is followed by analysis of the Tartit ensemble's promotion in the media, including interviews, their performance in the United States, and additional more longterm processes surrounding that performance event. [End Page 793] More broadly, the goal is a more nuanced understanding of representations of culture and memory that move beyond mere "hybrids" in transcultural flows. These representations, I argue, reflect meta-messages in which there is shock of not only "the Other," but also shock of "the Self," in new worlds at home as well as in the borderlands.

International audience ; Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is the main terrorist organization in both North Africa and the Sahel. Allied to other local groups, its fighters occupied northern Mali for nearly a year since January 2012, imposing their law on the people. But in January 2013, the French army were successful in expelling them from the area. In their flight, AQIM left behind a number of documents which have cast new light on the inner-workings of the terrorist organization. By cross-checking information found in these unique documents, 1 it is possible to pinpoint AQIM's 'project' for the region and better understand the issues raised during the organization's internal debates. Relying on the official documents found in Timbuktu after the Jihadists' departure, this article attempts to answer questions about the 'real state' of AQIM just before the French military intervention in Mali. These documents are a collection of letters, written in Arabic, and exchanged between the Advisory Board of AQIM led by Algeria's Abdelmalek Droukdel (a.k.a. Abu Musab Abdelwadud) and the Advisory Board of the Al-Mulathamin Brigade led by Droukdel's fellow citizen, Mokhtar Belmokhtar (a.k.a. Khaled Abu Al-Abbas). Both men are considered veterans of the Jihad as they have been known figures since during the Algerian civil war (1992-2002). In their exchanges, the two men discuss at length the "Jihadist project in the region, its challenges and unresolved issues" and detail their views on "several key issues" including kidnapping and ransom activity, weapons procurement, communications security, and the organization's development plan.

International audience ; Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is the main terrorist organization in both North Africa and the Sahel. Allied to other local groups, its fighters occupied northern Mali for nearly a year since January 2012, imposing their law on the people. But in January 2013, the French army were successful in expelling them from the area. In their flight, AQIM left behind a number of documents which have cast new light on the inner-workings of the terrorist organization. By cross-checking information found in these unique documents, 1 it is possible to pinpoint AQIM's 'project' for the region and better understand the issues raised during the organization's internal debates. Relying on the official documents found in Timbuktu after the Jihadists' departure, this article attempts to answer questions about the 'real state' of AQIM just before the French military intervention in Mali. These documents are a collection of letters, written in Arabic, and exchanged between the Advisory Board of AQIM led by Algeria's Abdelmalek Droukdel (a.k.a. Abu Musab Abdelwadud) and the Advisory Board of the Al-Mulathamin Brigade led by Droukdel's fellow citizen, Mokhtar Belmokhtar (a.k.a. Khaled Abu Al-Abbas). Both men are considered veterans of the Jihad as they have been known figures since during the Algerian civil war (1992-2002). In their exchanges, the two men discuss at length the "Jihadist project in the region, its challenges and unresolved issues" and detail their views on "several key issues" including kidnapping and ransom activity, weapons procurement, communications security, and the organization's development plan.

The volume brings together papers by African and Nordic/Scandinavian gender scholars and anthropologists, in attempts to investigate and critically discuss existing lines of thinking about sexuality in Africa, while at the same time creating space for alternative approaches. Issues of colonial and contemporary discourses on 'African sexuality' and on 'female genital mutilation' are being discussed, as well as issues of female agency and of feminists' engagement with HIV/AIDS. The volume contributes to contemporary efforts of re-thinking sexualities in the light of feminist, queer and postcolonial theory. ; CONTENTS: Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa: Introduction / Signe Arnfred -- UNDER WESTERN EYES -- 1. Efundula: Women's Initiation, Gender and Sexual Identitites in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Namibia / Heike Becker --2. 'African Sexuality'/Sexuality in Africa: Tales and Silences / Signe Arnfred -- 3. A Reflection on the Cultural Meanings of Female Circumcision. Experiences from Fieldwork in Casamance, Southern Senegal / Liselott Dellenborg -- 4. Preventing HIV?: Medical Discourses and Invisible Women / Katarina Jungar & Elina Oinas -- 5. Whos 'Unmet Need'?: Dis/Agreement about Childbearing among Ghanian Couples / Akosua Adomako Ampofo -- PROBLEMS OF PLEASURE AND DESIRE -- 6. Kinky Politics / Kopano Ratele -- 7. Opening a Can of Worms: A Debate of Female Sexuality in the Lecture Theatre / Mumbi Mahcera -- 8. Paradoxes of Female Sexuality in Mali. On the Practices of Magnonmaka and Bolokoli-kela / Assitan Diallo -- FEMALE AGENCY -- 9. Understanding Sexuality in Africa: Diversity and Contextualised Dividuality / Jo Helle-Valle -- 10. 'Prostitutes' or Modern Women?: Negotiating Respectability in Northern Tanzania / Liv Haram -- 11. Masculinities, Sexuality and Socio-Economic Change in Rural and Urban East Africa / Margrethe Silberschmidt 12. Re-Conceptualizing African Gender Theory: Feminism, Womanism and the Arere Metaphor/ Mary Kolawole.

Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The heart of the study focuses on the period between 1876 and 1922, when a French army composed largely of slave soldiers took massive numbers of slaves in the interior, while in areas near the coast, hesitant actions were taken against slave-raiding, trading and use. After 1900, the French withdrew state support of slavery, and as many as a million slaves left their masters. A second exodus occurred after World War I, when soldiers of slave origin returned home. The renegotiation of relationships between those who remained and their masters carries the story into the contemporary world

The present dataset contains information on illicit economies in African conflict areas between 2015 and mid-2021 from UN Panel of Experts reports. It was collected in the context of a research paper on "Key features of illicit economies in African conflicts: Insights from the reports of UN Panels of Experts". Useful data sources on illicit economies and transnational organized crime in conflict zones are scarce and options for field research in several conflict zones over longer periods of time limited. Panels of Experts provide regular reports based on official mandates and guidelines for monitoring UN sanctions implementation. In order to address the research question, the reports on five out of ten conflict-related UN sanctions regimes that have been ongoing in mid-2021 have been selected. The choice was to focus on African cases (which are seven out of the ten) and those where UN sanctions as well as other UN actors (especially peacekeeping or support operations) have been actively involved. Initially, coding was conducted for CAR, DRC, Libya, Mali, and Somalia based on all UN PoE reports from the last five years (2015 to mid-2021). For Mali, reports are only available since 2018 as the sanction's regime was only established in 2017.

"This book examines how the struggles for democracy over the past quarter century have affected the resilience of states in the region of the West African Sahel. Distinguished scholar-practitioners from the region provide detailed insights into these processes in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad"--

This book examines how the struggles for democracy over the past quarter century have affected the resilience of states in the region of the West African Sahel. Distinguished scholar-practitioners from the region provide detailed insights into these processes in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.

La France a connu plusieurs échecs en Afrique. Il faut en tirer les leçons en travaillant différemment pour restaurer une confiance aujourd'hui fragilisée. Sans laisser la place par naïveté à une Russie agressive dont les milices pillent sans vergogne les ressources du Mali et de la Centrafrique.

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Contents
1 South Africa: Corruption and conviction2 Madagascar: Marc and the miners3 Mozambique: Born again Stalinism4 Ghana: Hotel Hullaballoo5 Nigeria/São Tomé: Blood over oil6 Mali: Soccer, Islam and hard times7 Zimbabwe: One law for the poor8 Pointers: Tanzania/Britain, Britain/Africa, France/Africa & Botswana