14 research outputs found
Écrire l’Islam en bambara. Lieux, réseaux et enjeux de l’entreprise d’al-Hâjj Modibo Diarra
No full textAl-Hâjj Modibo Diarra, nouvel acteur du paysage religieux malien, publie régulièrement, depuis 1987, des ouvrages de vulgarisation islamique en langue bambara, comportant aussi des traductions de l’arabe (extraits coraniques inclus). Son initiative relie les langues, les formes de communication orales et écrites, les savoirs et les réseaux dans l’islam ouest-africain. Les librairies bamakoises les distribuent en même temps que le village de l’auteur demeure le centre de sa production. Le milieu des librairies urbaines sert de relais à un phénomène qui reste pourtant essentiellement rural, tant par ses origines que par sa destination. Le parcours biographique de l’auteur/traducteur est à cet égard emblématique. Cette production imprimée islamique en bambara reconfigure les pratiques et les savoirs islamiques.Al-Hajj Modibo Diarra, a new actor of the Malian religious landscape, since 1987 has been publishing several booklets popularizing Islamic doctrine in Bambara language. These also contain translations from Arabic (including excerpts from the Qur’an). This initiative ties relationships between languages, oral and written forms of communication, genres of knowledge, and networks in West African, especially Malian, Islam. The Islamic bookshops in Bamako serve as places of publication and circulation while the village where the writer lives is including the actual writing of these works. The milieu of urban Islamic bookshops proves to work as a link for a phenomenon which remains, though, fundamentally rural, both in its origins and in its target. However, this very phenomenon must also be understood as a result of the growing integration of a milieu so far considered impervious into different kinds of networks that go beyond a merely local setting: the author/translator’s biography considered here is a case in point. The impact of this Bambara Islamic literature is discussed, alongside its implications upon local representations and reconfigurations of Islamic knowledge
A contemporary Malian Shaykh: Al-Hajj Shaykh Sidy Modibo Kane Diallo, the religious leader of Dilly
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Recent studies have pointed to the relationships between marabouts and power in West Africa. The present author argues that these studies should be broadened to include marabouts not necessarily linked directly to particular regimes, but whose reputations and widespread popularity put them in a complex relationship to power. He presents a biographical note on the most influential marabouts in present-day Mali, Sidy Modibo Kane Diallo, born in 1925 in the town of Dilly, in the cercle of Nara which was then the French Sudan. In 1974 he became the official 'khalifa' of the Kane Diallo family. Today his reputation rests in large part on his efforts to spread Islam in Mali, particularly among the Bambara of Beledugu and Kaarta. Other factors which have served to enhance Sidy's reputation include the yearly 'ziyara' in Dilly and his role as a 'khalifa' of the Quadiriyya brotherhood. His circulation within Mali has been subject to authorization by the Malian State. Wherever he travels, he is received with great fanfare not only by villagers but also by representatives of the State who shower him with gifts and solicit him for blessings. The State cannot fail to recognize the potential benefits of its association with Sidy, and at times seems to act to exploit his influence, although he is not closely linked to the Traor‚ regime. Notes, refASC – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde
The independent African American labor movement in the formation of the American state and the consolidation of capitalist class power, 1993
No full textThis is a theoretical analysis of the Independent African American Labor Movement and its influence upon the American state. Two of the early periods in American political history are considered. The central theme of the analysis is the role of slave labor in the context of the plantation system in the formation of the state and in the eventual consolidation of the class power of American capitalists
Negotiations as a Mean to Resolve Conflicts in Africa
No full textIn the article negotiating process is considered as one of the most accessible and effective experiences of peace-making in Africa. On the basis of the existing points of view and own opinion the author considers the purposes and the way of behavior of participants of negotiations in resolving conflicts, investigates to a negotiating stage, specifies conditions of success of this process
Переговоры как средство разрешения конфликтов в Африке
No full textIn the article negotiating process is considered as one of the most accessible and effective experiences of peace-making in Africa. On the basis of the existing points of view and own opinion the author considers the purposes and the way of behavior of participants of negotiations in resolving conflicts, investigates to a negotiating stage, specifies conditions of success of this process.В статье рассматривается переговорный процесс как один из наиболее доступных и эффективных опытов миротворчества в Африке. На основании существующих точек зрения и собственных наблюдений автор рассматривает цели и формы поведения участников переговоров в ходе урегулирования конфликтов, исследует стадии ведения переговоров, отмечает условия успешности этого процесса
African Refugees: Criteria of Definition and the Status Problem
No full textIn the article the author regards the problems of definition of the refugee as a legal and social concept, and also criteria of the status of the refugee with reference to the African realities. It is underlined that for defining the status of refugees there are often no accurate criteria. In particular, it is impossible to separate refugees gone from the borders of the country from the internal migrants because both of them frequently are supervised by the same factors. The main criterion to define refugees, more likely, is to search in the fact of leaving from a permanent home place because of the further impossibility to remain there
International finance capital and African development: 1980-2001, 2009
No full textThis dissertation examines how the change in the international economy away from manufacturing to finance has affected African development. The dominance of financial liberalization is obvious to most observers; however, discourse on the development of African economies since 1980 generally focuses on the primary lending institutions (the IMF and World Bank). This dissertation is really an attempt to create a narrative about the rejection of alternative forms of development and subsequent implementation of rieoliberal policies. African countries rushing pell-mell to privatize, democratize, and implement all things neoliberal, crystallizes the sterile nature of alternatives to financial liberalization. Much of the discussion surrounding strategies for development remain grounded in previous notions of how countries develop, the stages of development, and generally how countries can develop their infrastructure. While all of these have salience, it does not quite capture the essence of how the world has been transformed. It is no longer possible or sensible to discuss African development without understanding the role of international finance capital. Development cannot simply be understood by bargaining with foreign companies and attracting FDI. To be sure, that is not the only aspect of development but one that was heavily emphasized just fifteen to twenty years ago. The present global economic recession provides a perfect example of how important international finance capital, in this case derivatives, are so important to the international economy. Now we must understand derivatives and how this financial tool became so dominant in the international market economy
Африканские беженцы: критерии определения и проблема статуса
No full textIn the article the author regards the problems of definition of the refugee as a legal and social concept, and also criteria of the status of the refugee with reference to the African realities. It is underlined that for defining the status of refugees there are often no accurate criteria. In particular, it is impossible to separate refugees gone from the borders of the country from the internal migrants because both of them frequently are supervised by the same factors. The main criterion to define refugees, more likely, is to search in the fact of leaving from a permanent home place because of the further impossibility to remain there.В статье рассматривается проблема определения беженца как юридического и социального понятия, а также критерии статуса беженца применительно к африканским реалиям. Указывается, что для определения статуса беженцев часто отсутствуют четкие критерии. В частности, невозможно отделить беженцев за пределы своей страны от внутренних мигрантов, поскольку зачастую и теми, и другими руководят одни и те же факторы. Главный критерий определения беженцев, скорее, следует искать в факте ухода из места постоянного жительства по причинам дальнейшей невозможности оставаться на месте
Écrire l’islam en bambara
No full textAl-Hâjj Modibo Diarra, nouvel acteur du paysage religieux malien, publie régulièrement, depuis 1987, des ouvrages de vulgarisation islamique en langue bambara, comportant aussi des traductions de l’arabe (extraits coraniques inclus). Son initiative relie les langues, les formes de communication orales et écrites, les savoirs et les réseaux dans l’islam ouest-africain. Les librairies bamakoises les distribuent en même temps que le village de l’auteur demeure le centre de sa production. Le milieu des librairies urbaines sert de relais à un phénomène qui reste pourtant essentiellement rural, tant par ses origines que par sa destination. Le parcours biographique de l’auteur/traducteur est à cet égard emblématique. Cette production imprimée islamique en bambara reconfigure les pratiques et les savoirs islamiques.Al-Hajj Modibo Diarra, a new actor of the Malian religious landscape, since 1987 has been publishing several booklets popularizing Islamic doctrine in Bambara language. These also contain translations from Arabic (including excerpts from the Qur’an). This initiative ties relationships between languages, oral and written forms of communication, genres of knowledge, and networks in West African, especially Malian, Islam. The Islamic bookshops in Bamako serve as places of publication and circulation while the village where the writer lives is including the actual writing of these works. The milieu of urban Islamic bookshops proves to work as a link for a phenomenon which remains, though, fundamentally rural, both in its origins and in its target. However, this very phenomenon must also be understood as a result of the growing integration of a milieu so far considered impervious into different kinds of networks that go beyond a merely local setting: the author/translator’s biography considered here is a case in point. The impact of this Bambara Islamic literature is discussed, alongside its implications upon local representations and reconfigurations of Islamic knowledge.Al-Hajj Modibo Diarra, nuevo actor del paisaje religioso de Mali, publica regularmente, desde 1987, obras de vulgarización islámica en lengua bambara, incluso traducciones del árabe (extractos coránicos incluidos). Su iniciativa une los idiomas, las formas de comunicación orales y escritas, los saberes y las redes en el Islam del oeste africano. Las librerías bamaquesas las distribuyen mientras que el poblado del autor sigue siendo el centro de su producción. El ambiente de las librerías urbanas sirve de relevo a un fenómeno que permanece sin embargo esencialmente rural, tanto por sus orígenes como por su destinación. El recorrido biográfico del autor/ traductor es en este sentido emblemático. Esta producción impresa islámica en bambara reconfigura las prácticas y los saberes islámicos. (trad. Véronica Giménez Béliveau
Muslim proselytization as purification: religious pluralism and conflict in contemporary Mali
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This chapter first discusses the nature of religious pluralism in Mali, highlighting some of the practices that many Muslims find objectionable and that, therefore, are a major source of tension between Islam and Muslims, on the one hand, and traditional religions and their practitioners, on the other. The author then considers the proselytization activities of one of Mali's most celebrated, contemporary Muslim religious leaders, Sidy Modibo Kane (1925-1996), examining the actual mechanisms of his campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s to spread Islam among non-Muslims and to extirpate allegedly un-Islamic practices, most notably spirit possession, as well as some of the intended and unintended consequences of such proselytization efforts. ASC – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde
