Makhroufi Ousmane Traore (California Pomona College)

Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the complexities of identity in precolonial West Africa, Makhroufi Ousmane Traorà shows the Soninke community's resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of ethnic belonging. Traorà highlights the varied ways in which West Africans crafted and negotiated their identities.

Produktdetails

• African Identities: Past and Present
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 473
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781009282338
• ISBN-10: 1009282336
• Artikelnr.: 73391124

Autorenporträt

Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré is Assistant Professor at Pomona College and an African scholar whose research primarily focuses on the history of the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave trades. He was awarded the 2022 Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship. With this fellowship, Traoré endeavors to shine a light on the unheard voices of African Egyptologists with the publication of a textbook featuring African perspectives on Egyptology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Between the Sahara and the Atlantic Ocean: 1. The ethnic-state of Gajaaga
2. African slavery versus the slave trade(s)
Part II. Atlantic Slavery, Kingship, and Worship of Nature: 3. Trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic Gajaaga
4. Matriarchy, ecology, and Atlantic slave trade
Part III. Gajaaga at the centre, the French Empire at the Edge: 5. Resisting the French empire
6. Bridging empire and hinterland
Conclusion.