Description
Book SynopsisDans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.
Trade Review[...] 'Camara stands alongside powerful thinkers such as Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, and Boubou Hama in describing the uniqueness and complexity of sociopolitical thought in West Africa. Bertho and Rodet have done a great service in providing this material to readers at the undergraduate, graduate, or scholarly levels. The volume, well-produced and edited by the Brill team and highly accessible in its bilingual form, will yield years of further insights into the place of Islamic genealogical, juridical, and political connections among West African groups previously thought of as largely animist, the role of slavery and violence in postcolonial West African societies prior to full-scale French arrival, and local processes of intellectual production'.[...] Douglas W. Leonard, United States Air Force Academy, in Journal of West African History, Volume 8.1, (2022), pp. 176-178
Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Remerciements Acknowledgments List of Illustrations / Table des illustrations 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’ histoire locale” 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 Bibliographie Index des auteurs
