Histories and contemporary stakes in a small town of the Inner Niger Delta (Mali, West Africa)
(2010) 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies - “The 50 years of African Independencies: Challenges to modernity” — Location: Lisbon
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- In the studied locality, a town in the Inner Niger Delta (Mali, West Africa), the understanding of the current local governance asks to be replaced in a long-term historical perspective. Indeed, local powers explain an important part of their legitimacy by making references to the “past”. I suggest articulating my anthropological paper around three periods corresponding to the main temporal markers mobilized by the local actors (precolonial and postcolonial heritage, “the advent of the politics in the village”, democratization and multipartism or “those who look for the power are among us”). This temporal division gives a mental map of the structuring dynamics of the locality and is necessary to understand the current political games (i.e. local elections). This case study shows how a strategically constructed past enlightens the present with regard to future political stakes.
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Deridder, M. (2010). Histories and contemporary stakes in a small town of the Inner Niger Delta (Mali, West Africa). 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies - “The 50 years of African Independencies: Challenges to modernity”, Lisbon. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/176949