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Mandingo (African people) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Ethnology --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs.

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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.

Folklore --- Griots --- Mandingo (African people) --- Music --- Performance --- History and criticism. --- Gambia --- Social life and customs. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Gambie --- Colony of the Gambia --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambia, The --- The Gambia --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Historians --- Storytellers --- ガンビア --- Ganbia --- History and criticism --- 冈比亚 --- Gangbiya

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In 1985, while she was an apprentice griot or jelimuso, Barbara G. Hoffman saw and recorded a remarkable event that took place in the small town of Kita, Mali. For four days, thousands of griots from all parts of the Mande world gathered together to talk, sing, and make music in celebration of the opening of the new Hall of Griots and the installation of the recently named Head Griot. This unprecedented assembly, unheard of in the history of the Mande, also marked the end of the two-year long 'War of the Griots'; a deadly conflict fought with the tools of the griot verbal masters - words, reputations, and sorcery. "Griots at War" captures griots in action as they made speeches, sang songs of praise, and danced in honor of their renewed unity. Hoffman's discerning transcription and examination of the speeches not only reveals the oratorical skills of griots, but their skill in using history, metaphor, religion, proverbs, and praise to mend a community that had been torn apart by war. But Hoffman discovers a startlingly keen edge to the griots' words. Who intervenes, and how, when war breaks out in the griot community? The speeches made at Kita expose both griots and nobles engaged in behaviours that were strikingly unexpected of people of their status. Hoffman shows that griot public oratory also functions to delineate the boundaries of griot castes and to persuade other castes to recognise and respect what gives each caste its unique identity. While the verbal art of griots has been well documented in the form of epic poetry, "Griots at War" brings their formidable linguistic abilities to the fore as they negotiate, reestablish, and assert their cultural power. This exceptional book offers surprising and important insights into the multiple meanings of Mande culture, caste, and identity.

Oratory --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Griots --- Mandingo (African people) --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Argumentation --- Oratory, Primitive --- Speaking --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Debates and debating --- Elocution --- Eloquence --- Lectures and lecturing --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Public speaking --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Ethnology --- Historians --- Storytellers --- Kita. --- Social life and customs. --- Performance --- Kita (Kayes, Mali) --- Kita (Mali) --- Kita, Mali --- Folklore.

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Ce tome présente le Ta:rikh Mandinka, un manuscrit rédigé en Arabe et en Mandinka, originaire du village de Bijini en Guinée-Bissau. Inédit jusqu’à présent, le manuscrit consiste en une compilation structurée et très originale sur le Kaabu, réunissant divers récits et chroniques focalisant les débuts mythiques et la chute de cet « empire » païen au milieu du 19ième siècle. Deux versions du manuscrit et plusieurs interprétations (lectures) du Ta:rikh sont reproduites, transcrites, traduites et analysées en tenant compte de questions philologiques, historiques et anthropologiques. L'analyse regarde la communauté cléricale de Bijini en tant que lieu de transmission de savoirs dans un contexte local et régional. Le point focal du livre est l’importance de la diaspora cléricale des Mandinka et Jaakanka (Jakhanké) dans le processus de la construction de l’histoire de l’ « empire » sòoninkee du Kaabu en Sénégambie. Le tome contient un glossaire des noms et des termes mentionnés par les sources, des illustrations, des tableaux, des cartes et des photographies. This volume presents a hitherto unpublished manuscript written in Arabic and Mandinka from the Muslim village of Bijini in Guinea-Bissau, the Ta:rikh Mandinka, a unique and structured compilation unfolding the pagan 'empire' of Kaabu from its mythical beginnings to its downfall in the nineteenth century. Two existing manuscript versions and several oral interpretations of the Ta:rikh are reproduced, transcribed, translated, compared and analysed considering philological, historical and social-anthropological issues (chaps. 1-3). The fourth chapter deals with the clerical community of Bijini as a place of knowledge-transfer in its local setting and within regional networks. The focus of the book is on the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the Sooninkee 'empire' of Kaabu in Senegambia. The volume contains a glossary of names and terms mentioned in the sources and is illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings.

Mandingo (African people) --- Soninke (African people) --- Aswanik (African people) --- Dyakanke (African people) --- Gadyaga (African people) --- Marka (West African people) --- Saracole (African people) --- Sarakole (African people) --- Sarawule (African people) --- Serahuli (African people) --- Silabe (African people) --- Toubakai (African people) --- Wakore (African people) --- Ethnology --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Bijine (Guinea-Bissau) --- Kaabu Empire --- Gabou (Kingdom) --- Gabu Empire --- Bijini (Guinea-Bissau) --- Mandingo (African people) - Guinea-Bissau - Bijine - History. --- Mandingo (African people) - Guinea-Bissau - Bijine - Social life and customs. --- Soninke (African people) - Guinea-Bissau - Bijine - History. --- Soninke (African people) - Guinea-Bissau - Bijine - Social life and customs. --- Kaabu Empire - History. --- Bijine (Guinea-Bissau) - History. --- Bijine (Guinea-Bissau) - Social life and customs.

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In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté, enabling it to

Mandingo (African people) --- Households --- Women --- Mandingue (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Femmes --- History --- Social conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Samory, --- Kankan (Guinea : Region) --- Guinea --- France --- Kankan (Guinée : Région administrative) --- Guinée --- Colonization --- Social aspects --- Colonies --- Administration. --- Colonisation --- Aspect social --- Administration --- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration. --- Guinea -- Colonization -- Social aspects. --- Households -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region). --- Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- History. --- Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- Politics and government. --- Mandingo (African people) -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- History. --- Samory, approximately 1830-1900. --- Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions. --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Political aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects. --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Kankan (Guinée : Région administrative) --- Guinée --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Samodu, --- Samori Touré, --- Samory Touré, --- Touré, Samory, --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- République de Guinée --- Gvineĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Gvinei︠a︡ --- République populaire révolutionnaire de Guinée --- Republic of Guinea --- Gvineja --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Ethnology --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- ギニア --- Ginia --- Гвинея --- French Guinea --- 프랑스 --- Falanxi --- Fa-lan-hsi --- 法蘭西 --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Франц --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц Улс