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Title:Bellah histories of decolonization, Iklan paths to freedom: the meanings of race and slavery in the late-colonial Niger Bend (Mali), 1944-1960
Author:Hall, Bruce S.ISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies (ISSN 0361-7882)
Volume:44
Issue:1
Pages:61-87
Language:English
Geographic term:Mali
Subjects:racism
colonial policy
human trafficking
slavery
decolonization
Abstract:The author contends that in order to understand the racialized conflicts in the postcolonial Sahel, attention must be paid to the local history of racial ideas and practices that produced them. One of the reasons that racialized conflict has become so prolific in the postcolonial Sahel is because the first generation of leaders who brought Sahelian countries to independence deployed one set of racial arguments drawn from the larger French imperial context to deal with problems in local settings where race meant very different things. By offering an account of a particular racial formation in the Niger Bend region of French Sudan (present-day Mali), and in particular, the history of the struggles for emancipation by servile people known as the Bellah-Iklan, the author shows some of the ways that local realities intruded into larger politics of decolonization, shaping the postcolonial outcomes in important ways. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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