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In 2010 I filmed descendants of formerly enslaved populations in Kayes narrating the history of their ancestors and the realities of internal slavery in West Africa. The result was a 23-minute documentary film entitled "The Diambourou: Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes—Mali," which was released in 2014. The film was as much responding to specific historiographical questions in the field as a tool of research action to raise awareness among younger generations and to fight legacies of social discrimination today. With the exactions perpetuated against descendants of formerly enslaved populations in the Kayes region since 2018, the film, via its access-free online version, has experienced a second life as an anti-slavery activist medium, helping to bridge the gap between endogenous historical fighting against slavery and contemporary anti-slavery activism in the Soninke diaspora.

AbstractIn this article I analyze how African gender categories have interacted with those produced and imposed by French colonization and how these forced interactions may have given rise to specific kinds of resistance from local populations. Using the case study of forced recruitment for the private agricultural firmSociété Anonyme des Cultures de Diakandapé(SACD) in the region of Kayes in Mali from 1919 to 1946, I examine the complexities of resistance to forced labor from a gender perspective, with a special focus on how resistance was shaped by struggles around (re)construction and (re)definition of local and colonial masculinities.

Donne, migrazione e gruppifamiliari nell 'Alto-Senegal (1 907 -1 95 )
Mediante due studi di casi, questo contribute esamina i gruppi migratori, in particolare gruppi familiari, utilizzati dalle donne della regione di Kayes (Mali), durante il periodo coloniale, per aumentare la loro mobilité geografica e sociale. La "visita in famiglia", i matrimoni fra regione di origine e regione della migrazione durante più generazioni, son testimoni di comportamenti diasporici complessi che fanno parte intégrante di un fenomeno più largo della moltilocalità.

Introduction-version française -- Note sur la transcription -- Prélude: enquête autour d'un tapuscrit retrouvé / Elara Bertho -- Sur les traces de Djiguiba Camara: introduction au tapuscrit "Essai d'histoirelocale" / Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet -- "Essai d'histoire locale"-version française -- Introduction-English version -- A note on transcription -- Foreword: investigating a found typescript / Elara Bertho -- In the footsteps of Djiguiba Camara: an introduction to the typescript of "Essai d'histoire locale" / Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet -- "Essai d"histoire locale"-English version.

Children in Africa are heavily involved in migration but we know too little about the circumstances in which they migrate, their motivations and the impact of migration on their welfare, on wider society and in a global context. This book seeks to retrieve the experiences of child migrants, and to examine how child migration differs from adult migration and whether the condition of childhood pushes individuals towards specific migratory trajectories. It also examines the opportunities that child migrants seek elsewhere, the lack of opportunities that make them move elsewhere and to what extenttheir trajectories and strategies are gendered. Analysing the diversity and complexity of children's experiences of mobility in Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Togo and Zambia, the authors look at patterns of fosterage, child circulation within Africa and beyond the continent; the role of education, child labour and conceptions of place and "home"; and the place of the child narrator in migrant fiction. Comparing different methodological and theoretical approaches and setting the case studies within the broader context of family migration, transnational families, colonial and postcolonial migration politics, religious encounter and globalization in Africa, this book provides a much-needed examination of this contentious and critical issue. Elodie Razy is Assistant Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Liege (FaSS). She is the co-founder and co-editor of the online journal AnthropoChildren: Ethnographic Perspectives in Children & Childhood. Marie Rodet is a Senior Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She is currently working on her secondmonograph on slave resistance in Kayes, Mali.

In recent years, anthropologists, historians, and others have been drawn to study the profuse and creative usages of digital media by religious movements. At the same time, scholars of Christian Africa have long been concerned with the history of textual culture, the politics of Bible translation, and the status of the vernacular in Christianity