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Decolonizing heritage : time to repair in Senegal
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ISBN: 1009086189 1009092618 1316514536 1009092413 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Léopold Sédar Senghor's philosophy of Négritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal's reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time.


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Dance circles : movement, morality and self-fashioning in urban Senegal.
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ISBN: 9781782381471 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Berghahn Books

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West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860
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ISBN: 0521440831 0521534526 0511572786 9780521440837 9780511572784 9780521534529 Year: 1993 Volume: 77 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal river valley in the eighteenth century. He shows that the growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Slaves worked as seamen in the river and coasting trades, produced surplus grain to feed slaves in transit, and sometimes came to hold pivotal positions in the political structure of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This local slave system had far-reaching consequences, leading to religious protest and slave rebellions. The changes in agricultural production fostered an ecological crisis.


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Shifting perceptions of migration in Senegalese literature, film and social media
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ISBN: 0739175130 9780739175132 1306282160 9781306282161 9780739175125 0739175122 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Lexington Books

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Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media takes a multimedia approach to examining representations of emigration from Senegal through the analysis of novels, films, hip-hop songs, and online videos in French and Wolof. MahrianaRofheart demonstrates how Senegalese creative producers at home and abroad have formally and thematically confronted emigration from Senegal to Europe with texts that reconfigure Senegal's global position and destabilize France's position as a status-laden destination.

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