Transactional Culture In Colonial Dakar 1902 44

Author : Rachel M. Petrocelli
Publisher : Unknown
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Category : City and town life
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Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44 by Rachel M. Petrocelli Pdf

"Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships. During a transformative era in the first half of the twentieth century, Dakar-former capital of French West Africa and present-day capital of Senegal-evolved from a small colonial capital meant to serve the French administration to a dynamic city shaped not solely by colonial planners but by its resourceful inhabitants. In this important book, author Rachel Petrocelli introduces the concept of transactional culture, a set of norms and practices forged by Dakar's residents to navigate life under colonial rule. A central element of this culture was transience, a defining feature permeating various facets of life in Dakar, from commerce and employment to housing and interactions with the state. The book uncovers a central dynamic: economic relationships in Dakar were continually molded by the ebb and flow of diverse individuals, each pursuing their own objectives, despite relentless efforts of the French state to exert control. Both Europeans and Africans embraced adaptability in Dakar over fixed residence, while immigrant communities implanted themselves and became integral to the city's transactional culture. In a compelling narrative based on court records and other primary sources, author Rachel Petrocelli shows that as the French colonial state sought to shape and control Dakar, it enacted policies to intentionally limit city dwellers' financial resources. Practices like pawning possessions and taking out credit emerged as financial strategies as a result, integrating Dakarois of every background. These practices persisted long after French rule ended, underscoring the enduring impact of Dakar's colonial history"--

Author : Rachel M. Petrocelli
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781648250774

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Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44 by Rachel M. Petrocelli Pdf

Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships. During a transformative era in the first half of the twentieth century, Dakar--former capital of French West Africa and present-day capital of Senegal--evolved from a small colonial capital meant to serve the French administration to a dynamic city shaped not solely by colonial planners but by its resourceful inhabitants. In this important book, author Rachel Petrocelli introduces the concept of transactional culture, a set of norms and practices forged by Dakar's residents to navigate life under colonial rule. A central element of this culture was transience, a defining feature permeating various facets of life in Dakar, from commerce and employment to housing and interactions with the state. The book uncovers a central dynamic: economic relationships in Dakar were continually molded by the ebb and flow of diverse individuals, each pursuing their own objectives, despite relentless efforts of the French state to exert control. Both Europeans and Africans embraced adaptability in Dakar over fixed residence, while immigrant communities implanted themselves and became integral to the city's transactional culture. In a compelling narrative based on court records and other primary sources, author Rachel Petrocelli shows that as the French colonial state sought to shape and control Dakar, it enacted policies to intentionally limit city dwellers' financial resources. Practices like pawning possessions and taking out credit emerged as financial strategies as a result, integrating Dakarois of every background. These practices persisted long after French rule ended, underscoring the enduring impact of Dakar's colonial history.

Author : Linda Marinda Heywood,Professor of African American Studies and History Linda Heywood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1580460631

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Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present by Linda Marinda Heywood,Professor of African American Studies and History Linda Heywood Pdf

A detailed historiographical examination of the role the Ovimbundu people have played in Angolan politics from Portuguese colonization to the present.

Author : Jordan Fenton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Masquerades
ISBN : 9781648250262

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Masquerade and Money in Urban Nigeria by Jordan Fenton Pdf

Introduction, Masquerade as an Artistic Pulse of the City -- "Face No Fear Face:" Unmasking Youths -- "If they Burn it Down, We will Build it Even Larger:" Confrontations of Space -- "People Hear at Night:" Sounds and Secrecy of Nocturnal Performance -- "Idagha Chieftaincy was Nothing like what it is today:" The Spectacle of Public Performance -- "We Call it Change:" An Artistic Profile of Artist Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa -- "Look at it, Touch it, Smell it-this is Nnabo:" Trajectories and Transformations of "Warrior" Societies -- "For this Small Money, I No Go Enter Competition:" Masquerade Competition on a Global Stage -- "I know Myself:" Masquerade as an Artistic Transformation -- Coda: "I Think About my Kids and Feeding Them".

Author : Paul Ugor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648250248

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Youth and Popular Culture in Africa by Paul Ugor Pdf

"The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--

Author : Samuël Coghe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108837866

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Population Politics in the Tropics by Samuël Coghe Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, 2014.

Author : Solimar Otero
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580463263

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Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World by Solimar Otero Pdf

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation. Solimar Otero is Associate Professor of English and a folklorist at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature and ethnography. Dr. Otero is the recipient of a Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund grant (2013), a fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program (2009 to 2010), and a Fulbright award (2001).

Author : Alexander Keese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307353

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Ethnicity and the Colonial State by Alexander Keese Pdf

Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.

Author : Roger K. Tangri
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0865437475

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The Politics of Patronage in Africa by Roger K. Tangri Pdf

This is a survey of the influence of political factors on economic performance throughout Africa with case studies drawn from Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. It is a comparative study of the difficulties in developing a private enterprise economy.

Author : James De Lorenzi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465199

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Guardians of the Tradition by James De Lorenzi Pdf

Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.

Author : Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1580469841

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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals by Raphael Chijioke Njoku Pdf

A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts

Author : Jonathan Fisher,Nina Wilén
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499378

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African Peacekeeping by Jonathan Fisher,Nina Wilén Pdf

An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.

Author : Emil Lengyel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
ISBN : UCSD:31822016006397

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Dakar, Outpost of Two Hemispheres by Emil Lengyel Pdf

Author : John Edward Philips
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1580462561

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Writing African History by John Edward Philips Pdf

A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent account of African history. Writing African History will become the most important guide to African history for the 21st century. Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badéjo, Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal, Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway, John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall, Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon, John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].

Author : Ebere Nwaubani
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460763

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The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960 by Ebere Nwaubani Pdf

He also gives a nuanced appraisal of the Cold War, demonstrating that it was not as important as popularly believed in determining U.S. behavior in Africa. The primary focus of the book is on West Africa, with case studies focusing on the Ewe, Ghana (including the Volta dam project), and Guinea. The broad issues discussed are framed in the larger context of sub-Saharan Africa, and against the backdrop of the larger debates about the nature of post-1945 United States diplomacy."--BOOK JACKET.