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Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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Born in Diourbel on October 5, 1957, Kalidou Kasse is a Senegalese artist, painter, weaver and sculptor whose perspective for the legitimization of African contemporary art has given birth to several prize-winning work and exhibitions all over the world. His unique style of threadlike characters in a background of lively and brilliant colours describes a poetic and charming world painted with a constant concern for forms, details and colours. From a historic point of view, he is the artist who has delicately blended and balanced the art of western pictorial with African aesthetics inherited from his family of weavers. By refusing the representation imposed by western art, he reaffirms an individual form that is original in heralding the art of an emerging dominant force unabashed and unfettered by its past. This groundbreaking book explores the foundations of Kasse's aesthetics and subtly traces the individual trajectory of the painter within the wider collective and historic movement of art on the continent and beyond.Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo is a professor of Sociology is currently the Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. He has taught in several universities in Africa, Europe and in North America. He is the author of several works in the field of art in Africa, including Art photographique en Afrique (Harmattan, 2002), Identite visuelle en Afrique (Amalthee, 2008), and Norbert Elias, Ecrits sur l'art africain, (Kime, 2002). From 2002 to 2008, he was Deputy-Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal.

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Le travail d’analyse sociale nous pose toujours la question de la transcription des données et des résultats obtenus. Les modèles canoniques privilégient l’usage de l’écriture orthographique et relèguent souvent les formes d’écritures iconographiques dans la perception sensible, l’allusif et le flou symbolique, à l’extrême opposé de la rigueur démonstrative et argumentative de l’écriture. Dans le processus de production et de diffusion des connaissances en sciences sociales, le moment de l’enquête, en particulier, est une situation de transcription idéale pour examiner le passage d’un ordre de fait à un autre, et pour retracer sa fonction dans le projet scientifique. Cet ouvrage interroge les modalités d’implication de l’image dans la fabrication, la transformation et la présentation des données issues de l’enquête de terrain. La première partie questionne la constitution des mémoires et des identités individuelles et collectives. La photographie se tient au seuil de la mémoire et perpétue une interrogation sur les conditions d’exercice de la mémoire individuelle et collective. La contribution nous rappelle que l’image oblige les chercheurs plus que tout autre mode de présentation à s’interroger sur leur position. La deuxième partie est consacrée à l’épistémologie des images. Que les images soient produites par les chercheurs eux-mêmes ou récoltées lors du terrain ethnographique leur représentation est d’une importance cruciale mais ne va pas de soi. La troisième partie aborde la question de la restitution des données issues de l’enquête de terrain à travers l’analyse des photographies et plaide pour une analyse des rythmes, rare en sciences sociales, afin de saisir les complexités de l’urbanisation globale et de la restituer par les techniques de théâtre grâce à une approche du sensuous scholarship.

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"My heart is pounding against my chest. I am having a hard time breathing and a hard time thinking. I cross the terrace. One step, one small step. Then another tiny step. Now I am on the lawn. The grass is cold and wet under my bare feet. A gust of wind pastes my green sweatshirt against my body. My long grey skirt sticks to my legs like the skin of a rhinoceros. My heart tells me to run, to run as fast as my legs can carry me, with all my might. But I can't..." One morning in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, a lucky 13-year-old girl named Tina from a modest family is preparing to go to France to become part of Linda and Godwin Okpara's family. Linda is a home maker and Godwin is a footballer at top French club Paris Saint-Germain and for the Super Eagles, Nigeria's national squad. They have four children and Tina dreams of going with them to school and joining in their games and pranks, living the European dream. But soon after her arrival the reality becomes different. Written in collaboration with acclaimed French journalist, Cyril Guinet, Tina recounts how imprisonment, torture and abuse in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the twenty-first century could not break her. Tina's gripping story of survival and escape to rebuild her life is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor.

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Composed of articles first published in the journal Politique africaine, this book proposes an original interpretation of neoliberalism in Africa. Instead of seeing neoliberal reforms as intrinsically destructive of the post-colonial state, the authors, who include some of Africa's best-known social scientists, focus on the resilience and adaptability of African state structures, economic systems, and social survival mechanisms. They examine the diversity of responses to neoliberalism in what the editors call the "everyday politics of the state." In essays that range from diverse theoretical or historical discussions to close studies of the dynamics of specific reforms in particular places, they argue against univocal interpretations of the effects of neoliberalism. They show that the African state, far from disappearing, is adapting and reconfiguring itself in fascinating new social realities "co-constructed" by state action, as well as by the improvisations of communities and other private actors. These fascinating studies reveal processes far more complex and ambivalent than what entrenched ideas of the distinction between "public" and "private" actors or between the "state," the "market," and "society" allow for. Whether discussing neoliberal theories of sovereignty and property in the context of centuries of African political development or revealing the intricacies of people's adjustments to the restructuring of an urban transport system, these essays show that conventional readings of governance in Africa underestimate the dynamics of reappropriation and adaptation, and the conflicts between differing conceptions of power that are profoundly reshaping the state in contemporary Africa. [Subject: Politics, African Studies]

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Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.

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[Short description in English] Burkina Faso’s religious landscape, where traditional, Muslim and Christian religions intersect, is part of a social and historical context spread over several centuries marked by a diversity that has been studied by researchers for a long time. As the security situation deteriorates in recent years in the Sahel region, the religious question is increasingly being redefined and put at the forefront of the Burkinabe socio-political scene. This collective work offers readers a synthesis of the knowledge accumulated by researchers over the past decades on the different religions and the social dynamics associated with them to shed light on the management of the country’s religious diversity and coexistence without masking the tensions and conflicts being experienced. [Full description in French] Le Burkina Faso est caractérisé par un paysage religieux, où se côtoient religions traditionnelles, musulmanes et chrétiennes. Cette cohabitation s’inscrit dans un contexte social et historique étudié de longue date par les chercheurs. Alors que la situation sécuritaire se dégrade depuis plusieurs années dans la zone sahélo-saharienne, la question religieuse est de plus en plus mise sur le devant de la scène burkinabè. Cet ouvrage collectif propose aux lecteurs une synthèse des connaissances accumulées par les chercheurs au cours des dernières décennies sur les différentes religions et les dynamiques sociales qui y sont associées. La première partie décrit les courants religieux en présence. Elle souligne ainsi la centralité du religieux pour saisir les changements sociaux. Dans la seconde partie, les interactions entre religions sont questionnées à travers des thématiques transversales d’actualités, telles que l’éducation, la démographie, la politique, les ONG confessionnelles, l’historicité de la notion de djihad ou l’usage des NTICs. Les dynamiques sociopolitiques récentes qui traversent le Burkina Faso redéfinissent sans doute le champ du religieux, tout en s’inscrivant dans un contexte historiquement et socialement marqué par la diversité. Cet ouvrage éclaire la question actuelle de la gestion de cette diversité par des exemples de coexistence religieuse étalés sur plusieurs siècles, sans masquer les antagonismes et conflits vécus. Préface par Pr. Benjamin Soares, Department of Religion, Université de Floride, États-Unis.

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The HerStory Project is a stirring kaleidoscope of thirty-three exemplary women from different backgrounds, temperaments, passions, and achievements. The stories of these women, drawn from Botswana, Ghana, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe, challenge and move beyond long-held traditions of gender discrimination and cultural inhibitions to reveal individuals whose determination and self-belief have had tremendous impact on their livelihoods, communities and nations. These narratives redefine and delineate the contours of women empowerment and leadership in African communities, broadening the discourse to include the transformative power of the individual and her society. Contributors to Volume I: * Doyin Abiola * Pamela Adedayo * Adetutu Adeleke * Mayen Adetiba * Pamela Ajayi * Carlene Alaja-Browne * Gladys Ashitey * Bola Atta * Bolanle Awe * Dere Awosika * Opral Benson * Olayinka Blackshear * Akua Sena Dansua * Esther Obeng Dapaah * Oyinade Elebute * Christy Essien Igbokwe * Mosunmade Faderin * Kehinde Kamson * Abioye Kusamotu * Bontshetse Mazile * Bennedikter Molokwu * Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye * Ndidi Nwuneli * Olusola Obada * Bashirat Odunewu * Debbie Ogunjobi * Elsie Omidiji * Olufunke Iyabo Osibodu * Aisha Muhammed Oyebode * Tinuade Oyekunle * Veronica Piserchia * Zenebeworke Tadesse * Folashade Thomas-Fahm. Anthonia Makwemoisa holds a doctorate in English from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is Executive Director of the African Cultural Institute, a research and publishing organization based in Lagos. She is an associate editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Studies, and editor of the Women of Valour series, a project that documents the lives of successful African women.

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