Tereba Togola Appointed Mali's National Director of Arts

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Tereba Togola Appointed Mali's National Director of Arts Editor's note: Some participants would like their paper to be on a panel other than what was listed in the last In Bamako, March 5, 1998 it was announced that Dr. newsletter. There are in fact an unusual number of paper TEREBA TOOOLA had been appointed NATIONAL topics for this conference that would fit on more than DIRECTOR OF ARTS. This highly prestigious post one panel. Some panels were already full; others drew manages all cultural efforts and includes a staff of more papers than could be fitted onto them, so some hundreds at such governmental entities as the National papers have been placed where they would fill out other Museum, I'Institut des Sciences Humaines, all cultural panels that were reasonably close topically but short of missions, the National Institute of Arts, and the North presenters. In any case, it is intended that no panels will Korean-built Palace of Culture. run concurrently, which means it is possible for each Dr. Togola, former student of Susan and Roderick presentation to be heard by everyone attending. McIntosh of Rice University, is the first American- trained professional appointed by President Alfa Konare CHANGING FRONTIERS: MIGRATORY to occupy a substantive post. MOVEMENTS OF MANDE PEOPLES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University International Conferenee on Mande Studies Papers: Serrekunda, Gambia Edda Fields, University of Pennsylvania (Up-date) "Migration, Islam, and Rice Cultivation: Elements in the History of Baga-Mande Relations" Dates of conference: 12-19 June, 1998 Ariane DeLuz, Laboratoire d' Anthropologie Location: Senegambia Beach Hotel, Serrekunda, The Sociologique, Paris Gambia "Is There a Model of Malinke Penetration in the Mande SPECIAL NOTE TO PARTICIPANTS: World (Cote d'Ivoire)?" To participate, your MANSA membership dues must be Allen Howard, Rutgers University up-to-date (check your newsletter mailing label). As was "Mande- and Pula-speakers in the Transborder Trade the case with the conference in Leiden, we will be Between Guinea and Sierra Leone, Late 19th/Early 20th charging a registration fee of U.S.$25.OO per person, to Centuries" help defray the expenses of the conference. In addition to Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University and Han van that we are asking a donation of $5.00 apiece to help Dijk, Wageningen University pay musicians at the concert being organized and mostly "Fulbe Travels into Mande: The Influence of Mobility paid for by Lucy DUI""dIl(see below). You may submit on a Culture" this payment totalling $30.00 before leaving for The Bogodo Obare and Oumarou Banni Guene, Gambia, or pay by check in Serrekunda at the beginning Universite Nationale du Benin of the conference (make your check out to MANSA). "Linguistic, Ethnoarchaeolgical and Historical Evidence on the Boo/Boko Mande Subgroup Settlement in Conference Theme: Beninois Borgu: Preliminary Considerations" HISTORICAL MOMENTS AND SOCIAL Dolores Koenig, American University with Tieman IDIOSYNCRACIES: CULTURE, AGENCY AND Diarra and Moussa Sow CAUSALITY IN THE MANDE WORLD "Contemporary Agricultural Migration and Settlement: Aspects of Inter-Ethnic Relations"

DAVIDC. CONRAD,President, State University of New York-Oswego BARBARAE. FRANK,Vice President, State University of New York-Stony Brook STEPHENWOOTEN,Secretary-Treasurer, University of California-Los Angeles Advisory Board Alpha Bah, College of Charleston LANSINEKAllA. University of Illinois-Chicago ARlANEDEwz, Laborntoire d'Anthropologie SocioJogique ~TER MARK,WESLEYANUNIVERSITY . MAMAoouD1AWARA,Universitat Bayreuth TtlREBATocoix, Mimstry of Culture and Tourism, Bamako

+ THE ANCIENT MANDE LANDSCAPE: Eugenia Herbert, Mount Holyoke College CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RESPONSE "Gender and Technology in Mande Societies" Chair: Roderick McIntosh, Rice University Rosa de Jorio, University of North Florida Papers: "Le Bara Dance and Women's Political Participation: A Hamady Bokoum, IFAN, Dakar View From Segu" "Les rapports entre la metallurgie et I' environnement "Kassim Kone, SUNY -Cortland dans la Moyenne Vallee du Senegal" "Male and Female in the Manden: Covert and Overt Roderick McIntosh, Rice University Rules in Excision" "Chasing Dunjugu Over the Mande Landscape: Making Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University Sense of Prehistoric and Historic Climate Change" "Genderizing Mande Studies: A View From Jeliya" Tereba Togola, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Bamako MATERIAL AND PERFORMANCE ARTS "Les peuples Mande face aux adversite du climat" AMONG THE MANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Robert Vernet, Universite de Nouakchott Chair: Barbara Frank, SUNY -Stony Brook "Evolution du peuplement et glissement des isohyetes a Papers: la fin de la prehistoire et au debut de I'histoire en Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution Afrique de I'Ouest sahelienne" "Beautifying Bamako's Streets: New Public Sculpture Discussant: Joseph Tainter, U.S. Forest Service in Mali" Patrick McNaughton, Indiana University PRE-1700 MANDE AND LUSO-AFRICAN "Innovation and Restraint in Mande Performance CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS Aesthetics" ON THE ATLANTIC COAST Kirsten Langeveld, University of Amsterdam Chair: Peter Mark, Wesleyan University " The kankuran Mask in Gender Perspective: An Papers: Analysis of Myth and Female Ritual" Peter Mark, Wesleyan University Stephen Wooten, University of California--Los "Maude-Portuguese Relations and Cultural Interaction Angeles Before 1700" - "Expressive Agri/Culture: Headresses, Hoes, and Martin Klein, University of Toronto Heritage on the Mande Plateau" "Ethnic Pluralism and Homogeneity in the Western Sudan: Saalum, Segu, Wasulu" JELIY A AND MANDE ORAL TRADITION Donald Wright, SUNY -Cortland Chair: Lilyan Kesteloot, IFAN, Universite de Dakar "Pan-Africanism with 'the Pinch of Famine' (or Debt Papers: - Peonage on Both Sides of the Atlantic): The Gambian Seydou Camara, ISH Bamako Mandinka and Their African-American Relatives in "La Geste de Nankomanjan d' Apres Fode Berete de World Economy" Kangaba" Stephan Buhnen, Bremen University Lilyan Kesteloot, IFAN, Universite de Dakar "Exchange and Society in Precolonial Southern "Le mythe du Chef dans les epopees saheliennes" Gambia" "Gerard Dumestre, INALCO, Paris Jose da Silva Horta, Lisbon University "Chroniques amoureuses au Mali" "Pre-1700 Mande and Luso-African Cultural and Katrin Pfeiffer, University of Hamburg Economic Relations on the Atlantic Coast" "Mnemonic Function of Songs in Mandinka-Taaling" Stephen Belcher, Pennsylvania State University GENDER IN MANDE STUDIES INTO THE 21ST "A Synoptic View of the Nioro Region's Histories" CENTURY Part I Chair: Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University THE POLITICS OF DECENTRALIZATION AMONG Papers: THE MANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Saskia Brand, University of Leiden Co-chairs: Clemens Zobel, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, "Musoya: Gender Discourse Interpreted" EHESS and Claude Fay, Centre d'Etudes Africaines Lucy Duran, SOAS, University of London Papers: "Musoya and the Impact of the Music of Oumou Jan Jansen, Leiden University Sangare" "Inviting the Trojan Horse?: Local Traditions in Mali's Barbara Frank, SUNY -Stony Brook Politics of Decentralization" "Who Made the Djenne Terra-Cottas?: Gender, Craft Clemens Zobel, Centre d'Etudes Africaines EHESS Specialization and Mande Art History" Paris Maria Grosz-Ngate, Cornell University "Bringing Governance Back Home: Malian "Community and Gender in Sana (Mali)" Decentralization and Local Politics in the Mande Hills" Michele LeClerc-Olive, CNRS Lille GENDER IN MANDE STUDIES INTO THE 21ST "Penser la legitimite de la decentralisation CENTURY Part II administrati ve au Mali en zone rurale: approche Chair: Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University pragmatique et conceptuelle" Papers:

2 Claude Fay, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, Centre Paul Folmer, Leiden University d'Etudes Africaines EHESS, Paris "Stories About Supernatural Categories in Wuli: "Entre tradi tion, democratic et developpement: la jaiangoli, Devils and Sorcerers" decentralisation au Maasina (Mali)" Ralph Austen, University of Chicago Catherine Quinimal, Centre d'Etudes Africaines "Corning of Age Through Colonial Education: African EHESS, Paris Autobiography as Hybrid Bildungsroman (The Case of "Les immigres de la region de Kayes et la politique de Camara Laye)" decentralization" Ingse Skattum, University of Oslo Andreas Massing, GTZ Projets Foyers Ameliores, "Education bilingue: francais et bambara: I'ecole Bamako fondamentale au Mali" "Decentralization: Legal Theory and Practice in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali" RELIGION ANTI POLITICS AMONG THE WlANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS CONSTRUCTIONS OF POLITICAL AND Chair: Andrew Clark, University of North Carolina at CULTURAL IDENTITY AMONG THE MANDE Wilmington AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Part I Papers: Co-chairs: David Conrad, SUNY -Oswego and David Skinner, University of Santa Clara Dorothea Schulz, Freie Universitat Berlin "The Late 19th-Century Spiritual and Military Papers: Movement of Fode Kaba" Alice Bellagamba, Universita degli Studi di Torino Eduardo Costa Dias, Centro de Estudos Africanos, "The Meaning of karafoo: Representations of Power and Lisbon Personal Entrustment by Mandinka Elders of Bansang "Les mandingues de l' ancien Kaabu et Ie savoir (Fuladu West), The Gambia" islamique" Ferdinand de Jong, Amsterdam School for Social Andrew F. Clark, University of North Carolina at Science Research Wilmington "The Kankurang Masquerade: Performing Against "Mamadou Lamine Drame's Revolt and the Soninke of Ethnic Others and the Senegalese State" Eastern Senegambia in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Cornelia Giesing, INEP, Bissau Reinterpretation" "Farim Sankulle and the Sonko of Tiliji" Yacouba Konate, Universite Nationale de Cote David Conrad, SUNY -Oswego d'Ivoire "Fakoli's Bonnet and other basiw: Identifying Mande "La mort mineure: Notes autour de la mort chez des Power Sources" Mande musulmans en Cote d'Ivoire" Kalala Ngalamulume, Central Washington CONSTRUCTIONS OF POLITICAL AND Universitv CULTURAL IDEI'llITY AMONG THE MANDE "West African Itinerant Healers and the AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Part II Commoditization of Healing Power in Saint-Louis, Co-chairs: David Conrad, SUNY -Oswego and Senegal: 1850-1914" Dorothea Schulz, Freie Universitat Berlin Discussant: Nehemia Levtzion Marloes Janson, CNWS Leiden "The 'Heroines' of Manding Culture: The Position, AGENCY IN MANDE MUSIC AND MEDIA Roles, and Gender Identity of jelimusooZu in Eastern Chair: Lucy Duran, SOAS, University of London Gambia" Papers: Mohamed Saidou N'Daou, Chicago State Musa Hakim, SUNY -Buffalo University "Tradition and Change in the Context of Manding Jali "Politique de Peuplement et Construction de 1,Identite Music: Reflections from Historiography and des Mikhifore (Boke, Guinea)" Discography" Marie Nathalie Leblanc, Concordia University Christine Nimaga Ceesay, Radio Gambia "From Ethnicity to Islam: Processes of identification "Agency in Mandinka Music" Amongst Muslim Youth in Bouake Cote d'I voire" Liam Buckly, University of Virginia LaIDissa Bangali, ENAM, Ouagadougou "Documentary Media and Colonial World Presence in "The Interactions of Fonon and Tuntun=smiths with The 'Gambia" Farmers in Senufo-land, Burkina Faso: Re-defining the John Kertzer, University of Washington and SOAS 'Ethnic Group' Concept in West Africa" "Kora Redefined: Collaboration and Constraint in the International Music Market" LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN MANDEN Manya Jordans, CNWS Leiden Chair: Valentin Vydrine, European University at st. "Maneuvering in Mande Music: Young Griots in Petersburg . ~ Bamako" Papers: Lucy Duran, SOAS University of London Valentin Vydrine, European University at St. "Refusing the Mother-tune Way: Recent Trends for Petersburg Mandinka Kora Styles in Bamako's Bajourou Guitar "Manding Lexicography Today" Music"

3 Are Your Writings on Africa IN Africa? Moreover; we have the famous 1949 recording. I have (A Reminder to MANSA Members) not yet learned if the archives are willing to put the recordings on a CD, but expect that they are interested Does that literate research assistant who helped you in the project. with your research back in Mali (or Senegal, etc.) have My question is twofold: a copy of the book? Holding the Fourth International 1) Do any of you know who else made recordings with Conference on Mande Studies in West Africa offers an jeliw from Kela? (I am especially interested to know if opportunity for many Mande scholars to catch up on any recordings were made during the 1950s and early distribution of their most recent publications. People 1960s.) who are attending can take books, dissertation-copies 2) Who would like to put a recording on this CD and/or and offprints with them, and those who are not will find write an article on the Kela griots or on experiences in " it easier than usual to send books, dissertations and Kela or with the Kela griots? offprints with their colleagues. After the conference, The aim of the book is to make a fine collection of many MANSA members will be fanning out across the memories of Kela and its jeliw. Every contribution is Mande landscape to Mali, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, welcome, including diary notes, but there is also room Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso. If you have for scholarly analysis. In particular life stories of Kela finished a writing project that has not yet been griots and translations of song texts will be appreciated. distributed back in the Mande homeland, please take this Pictures are welcome. The book will be published in opportunity to get that done. --Editor combination with the CD. Ideally, during the MANSA conference in Banjul I would like to assemble around the table all the people Music and Memories of Kela: who worked with the Kela jeliw in order to work out A Call for Contributions for A the idea of the Festschrift for Kela. I realize, however, Song Collection and Festschrift that they will not all be attending. Therefore, I have (Jan Jansen) submitted this pre-announcement of the Kela project MANSA Newlsetter. In the past decades many of us have worked in Kela or with the Kela jeli ngaraw in Bamako. I am personally aware of the following who have done research with Up-Date on MANSA Members' Kela jeliw (in alphabetical order): Charles Bird, Seydou Activities Camara, Eric Charry, David Conrad, Lucy Duran, Tom Hale, Barbara Hoffman, John Johnson, Cherif Keita, LAURA ARNTSON will leave Seattle in June for a Robert Newton, and Clemens Zobel. Peace Corps tour in Togo. Recordings have been made by many of these ABDOULIE BAYO has voluntarily retired from the scholars. And long before the MANSA researchers National Museum in Banjul and has opened a new invaded Kela, others had made musical recordings. Eric museum at Tanji, 20 km from Banjul, which he hopes Charry recently located rare 1949 recordings in an will be visited by MANSA members during the American archive (see MANSA Newsletter 36, p. 7). conference. As some of you may know, the small Dutch CD SEYDOU CAMARA (ISH Bamako) submitted a paper company, PAN-Records, has published two CDs with to MANSA and was awarded travel funds from the field recordings I made in Kela in the period 1989-96. government of The Netherlands for travel to the Fourth This material gives an impression of traditional praise International Conference on Mande Studies. songs (jasaw) and popular songs in the interpretation by ERIC CHARRY (University of North Carolina- the famous jeliw from Kela, among them the late Greensboro) has accepted a new teaching position at Kelabala, Yamudu, and Siramori. A few months ago, I Wesleyan University. proposed to Bernard Kleikamp, who actually "is" PAN ROSA DE JORIO is teaching in the Department of Records, to add to the two CDs one with historical Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice, recordings in combination with a book which provides University of North Florida. insights into the importance of Kela and the research TIEMAN DlARRA (ISH, Bamako) is one of a team of that has been done there. After reflecting on the six African anthropologists/sociologists receiving proposal for a few months, Kleikamp agreed to the honorable mention from the Praxis Award Committee project, IF quality of the recordings was "acceptable" during the AAA meetings in November 1997 in (Kleikamp sometimes even publishes mono field Washington, DC. Presented every two years by the recordings -- he is not a sound freak; the cultural value Washington Association of Professional and content of the liner notes are always his main Anthropologists (WAPA), the Praxis Award recognizes concern). excellence in anthropological practice. I know that Bird made recordings in Kela in 1968 Tieman Diarra's project was part of an international and 1972. Johnson and Conrad also made recordings in effort to control the disease onchocerciasis (caused by the seventies. These recordings were deposited in the the black fly) that has affected approximately 18 million Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music. Many people throughout much of tropical Africa. of us have made recordings in the 1980s and 1990s.

•• With the aid of the World Health Organization Lucy Duran Reports on the Griots' (WHO) Special Programme for Research and Training Niarela Celebration in Tropical Diseases (TDR), and supported by the (jeli nyenaje) in Bamako United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, Diarra's team worked with physicians and their In February I went to Mali to assist a British TV ministries of health to design workable programs to company with filming the jeli community's festivities distribute the drug ivermectin (Mectizan). Country in honour of the founding families of Bamako, and studies were carried out in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, thought MANSA members might be interested in Ghana, and Mali. hearing about it. MAMADOU DIA WARA (Bayreuth University) is on a After the end of Ramadan, Bakari Soumano, Mali's project in Mali with the a German agency. jelikuntigi, hosted a celebration tor Niarela, Bamako's "- LUCY DURAN (SOAS, University of London), at the oldest quartier. This event used to be annual, but it was invitation of the Frente Polisario, will attend a music suspended for nearly a decade because the previous festival at Tinduff in April. jelikuntigi, Dyamoussa Soumano, became too old and BARBARA FRANK (SUNY -Stony Brook) has been infirm to host it. Dyamoussa may be recalled by some promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure. Mande specialists as one of the main informants JULIANNE FREEMAN is teaching in the Department mentioned in Solange de Ganay's book Le Sanctuaire of Anthropology, Northern Kentucky University. Kama Blon de Kangaba. Paris: Nouvelles du Sud, 1995. ALMA GOTTLIEB is to be congratulated for winning a It is claimed that Dyamoussa was born in 1882, which Guggenheim Fellowship for the book project "The would have made him 110 at his death. He had been Afterlife is Where We Come From: West African Infant jelikuntigi since c. 1942. Care Practices (Cote d'Ivoire)." Dyamoussa's son Bakari Soumano took over the MARIA GROSZ-NGATE has become Assistant honorary post of jelikuntigi when his father passed Director in the Center for African Studies, University of away in October, 1992. Bakari stressed to me that the Florida position is not hereditary, but that he was chosen to BARBARA HOFFMAN (Cleveland State University) is succeed his father by Kela Bala Diabate of Kela. on a Fulbright teaching and research fellowship, In February 1997, Bakari Soumano reinstated the teaching graduate anthropology courses at the festivities. I happened to be in Bamako at the time (just University of Nairobi and doing research in Maasai back from filming with Oumou Sangare in Wasulu) and communities on culture change, especially gender roles quite literally stumbled across the event while looking and Ideologies. for a wedding party I had been invited to in another part YACOUBA KONATE (Universite Nationale, Abidjan) of Niarela. submitted a paper to MANSA and was awarded travel A couple of blocks of sandy street had been blocked funds from the government of The Netherlands for travel off from traffic, and from the numbers of people, to the Fourth International Conference on Mande dignitaries, and musicians there, it was immediately Studies. apparent that this was not the wedding i was looking for KASSIM KaNE is teaching in the Department of but something on a far bigger scale. As I managed to Sociology and Anthropology, SUNY -Cortland. get into the crowd, I could see that one whole side of DJIBRIL TAMSIR NIANE will be in the U.S. for the street was lined with several hundred jeliw: in fact, several weeks from the middle of May, visiting Tufts it looked like the "who's who" of the jeli community. University where he is collaborating on a CD ROM There was a chorus of some 100 women project preparing a visual production of a Sunjata accompanied by dozens of balafons and dunduns, ngonis performance for African literature in American and guitars. Some of Mali's greatest female singers classrooms. He's interested in some paid lecture gigs took it in turns to perform solos, including Nantene Dje while here, so if you want to invite him to speak, e- Kamissoko and Bako Dagnon. Every now and again a mail Parker James: [email protected] flank of elder jeliw, holding their swords high, danced DOROTHEA SCHULZ has left the Frobenius Institut from one end of the street to the other and back. I heard in Frankfurt and accepted a position at the Freie many songs which were new tome, or which I had not Universitat Berlin's Institut fur Ethnologie. seen performed in context. There was an unforgettable PATIENCE SONKO·GODWIN is hoping to come to moment when three jeliw in grand boubous suddenly the United States in July for the summer holidays, and kicked off their shoes and pulled gleaming swords out of she asks if there any possibility of having a part-time their scabbards. Swirling them through the air, they lecture job in any institution in the U.S. She would wheeled around each other in a magnificently agile dance like addresses of institutions that could render some that sent the audiences running with shrieks of both assistance to her. Among her publications is Leaderso]. terror and delight. Non-stop music and dance continued the Senegambia Region: Reactions to European throughout the evening until just before midnight when Infiltration 19th-20th Centuries Banjul: Sunrise the PA system was finally shut off and everyone Publishers Ltd. 1995. Her address: National Council for scattered. Arts and Culture, Research and Documentation Some months later in London I was approached by a Division, P.M.B. 151, Banjul, The Gambia (Fax: 220- British TV company who were looking for ideas for a 226822). short sequence on Mansa Musa. They were thinking of

5 doing some kind of dramatised production with period use, fridge, TV, office (including internet access), costume, etc. But when they saw my photographs of rooftop bar with view over the Niger, and a showroom the Niarela event, they were impressed with how much for crafts. It's within walking distance of the Palais de they were reminded of, for example, the account by Ibn Congres, the French Cultural Center, and the city Battuta of Mansa Sulayman's court -- despite center. The rates per person: 10-12,500 CFA. For wristwatches, microphones, electric guitars and other reservations, tel/fax: 223-23-24-37 or e-mail: obvious signs of late 20th Century life. They came [email protected] round to the idea of filming Niarela as an example of the continuity of the jeli tradition in the late 20th Century urban context, without suggesting any direct ASA Annual Meeting: links to Mansa Musa. MANSA-Sponsored Panels After negotiations with Bakari Soumano, the jeli community, and the Niare elders, we arranged to film ISLAM AND YOUTH IN WEST AFRICA: part of this year's Niarela festivities on the 7th of IDENTITY, HISTORY AND EDUCATION February. Furthermore, Bakari Soumano and Bako Co-chairs: Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Concordia Dagnon -- a jelimuso from Kita who is known for her University and Marie Miran, Tel-Aviv University knowledge of Mande history -- also agreed to do a brief Papers: recitation of praises of Hijitaa Musa, or "Musa who . Marie Miran, Tel-Aviv University went on the Pilgrimage" (as they preferred to call Mansa "The dawa in Cote d'Ivoire" Musa). Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc. Concordia University As always, the film crew was running to a tight and "The 'Arabisation' of MuslIm Identities Amongst hectic schedule, but by sheer luck they had obtained the Madersa Students in Cote d'Ivoire" services of MANSA member Sekou Berte of the Institut Discussant: Louis Brenner, SOAS, University of des Sciences Humaines. Some participants at the Mande London Studies Conference in Bamako in 1993 met Sekou then, and quite a few, including David Conrad and Roderick SECRETS AND LIES: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF Mclntosh, have worked with him on various research KNOWLEDGE IN MANDE projects. A Malian scholar who speaks excellent Co-chairs: Jan Jansen, Leiden University, and Molly English, with an ebullient and warm character, Sekou Roth, University of Pennsylvania Berte was the perfect go-between. With him on board Papers: everything went remarkably smoothly. In between Julianne Freeman, Northern Kentucky University dashing around Niarela, Berte and I managed to snatch a "Knowledge, Secrecy, and the Practice of Senior few moments of conversation. He sends greetings to Womanhood Among the Bamana of the Beleduzu MANSA members but unfortunately will be unable to (Mali)" ~. ~ attend the Banjul conference [eds' note: SB was Dorothea Schulz, Free University of Berlin encouraged to compete for travel funds but was busy "Seductive Secretiveness: jeliw as Producers and with a project in Bamako that didn't allow him time to Products of Ethnographic Knowledge" write a paper]. Clark Speed, University of Washington The festivities were on an even bigger scale than '''I have knocked you down with power': Recursive last year, and proceeded with the spirit and grace that is Processes of Secrecy (Dissolution) Among Landogo so characteristic of Mali. Between the immense charm (Lokko) of Northern Sierra Leone" and wisdom of Bakari Soumano, the hospitality of the Molly Roth, University of Pennsylvania Niare family, and the efficiency and savoir-faire of Berte, "The 'Secret' in Mande Historical Consciousness: Re- the film crew managed to get some really special and narrating the West" spectacular footage, which will go out as part of a ten- Jan Jansen, Leiden University part series on the Millennium. "The Mande Magical Mystery Tour: The 'Equipe Now that it has been reinstated, the Niarela event is Griaule' in Kangaba (Mali)" probably the biggest annual occasion to seen and hear Discussant: Patrick McNaughton Mali's finestjeliw within a "traditional" context, so look out for it next year, just after Ramadan. And if MANDE CULTURE IN THE NEW WORLD: ISSUES ever you need an English-speaking research assistant in IN METHODOLOGY AND INTERPRET AnON Mali, Sekou Berte is the man. Chair: Barbara Frank, SUNY -Stony Brook Papers: Cynthia Schmidt, University of Washington Jardin de Bolibana "Crossing the Sea with a Sacred Song: Transformation and Resilience on Both Sides of the Atlantic" Andreas Massing, working with G'I'Z'in Mali reports Eric Charry, Wesleyan University that they have set up a "quiet official guesthouse" called "the Confluence of Mande, Western African, and New Jardin de Bolibana in Bamako. Located behind the U.S. World Musics" Embassy Annex, Massing says it has 5-6 air- conditioned rooms with bathrooms/showers, kitchen

6 Konrad Tuchsherer, Boston University 6. "Domination politique et influences socioculturelles "Mande Writing Systems and Systems of Graphic des Mandingues sur les Peuls du Fuladu (Kolda- Symbolism: Sources for New World Graphic Symbols" Senegal) "by Abdarahmane N'Gaide Barbara Frank, SUNY -Stony Brook 7. "Les derniers seront les premiers: peuplements et "Piercing the Fragments: Searching for Mande Presence pouvoirs mandingues et peuls au Maasina (Mali)" in New World Artistic Tradi tions" by Claude Fay 8. "Les peuples mandingues dans un conte peul" by ISLAM IN WEST AFRICA: YOUTH, IDENTITY, Caroline Angenent and Anneke Breedveld AND EDUCATION Troisieme partie: Le Present Chair: Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Concordia University 9. "Pulaaku et crise d'identite: le cas des Fulbe wodeebe Papers: (Peuls rouges) de la region lacustre de I'Issa-Ber au Marie Miran, Michigan State University Mali" by Hallasy Sidibe, Mamadou Diallo and "The 'Revolution' of Da'wa (Call to Islam): Strategies Coumbel Barry and Practices Within the Muslim Community of 10. "Antagonisme et solidarite: les relations entre Peuls Abidjan in the 1990s" et Dogons du Mali central" by Mirjam de Bruijn, Eduardo Costa Dias, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Wouter E.A. van Beek and Han van Dijk Lisbon 11. "The Fulbe Shaykh and the Bambara 'pagans': "Arabic Schools in Guinea-Bissau: The Way to contemporary campaigns to spread Islam in Mali" 'Aribization' of Guinean Youth" by Benjamin F. Soares Ruediger Seesemann, Bayreuth University "How to Attract the Youth: Lessons from a Case Study 1997. Lilyan Kesteloot and Bassirou Dieng. Les of Islamic Educational Institutions in Northern Nigeria" epopees d'Afrique noire. Preface de Francois Suard. Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Concordia University Paris: Editions Karthala and Editions UNESCO. "The Production of Islamic Identities Through Premiere partie: Epopee et theories litteraires Knowledge Claims in Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire" 1. Le genre epique dans la tradition medieviste Discussant: Louis Brenner, SOAS 2. Le genre epique africain 3. Les interrogations des critiques oralistes FAMILIES, IDENTITIES AND POLITICS IN THE 4. Essai de typologie des epopees africaines MANDE WORLD: A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE B. 5.l.f!s producteurs de I'epopee africaine MARIE PERINBAM (MANSA Roundtable) 6. Enonciation et contexte de production: les exemples Chair: Stephen Wooten, University of California - Los wolof et bambara Angeles 7. Epopee et pouvoir: l'exemple soudainais Panelists: 8. My the et epopee dans I'Ouest sahelien Jeanne Toungara, Howard University Deuxieme partie: Recits epiques d'afrique occidentale Kassim Kone, SUNY -Cortland 1. Les epopees mandingues Martin Klein, University of Toronto Soundiata Richard Warms, Southwest Texas State University L' epopee du Gabou Les epopees de chasseurs La geste de Segou Book, Article, and Dissertation Releases L' epopee de Samory 2. Les epopees soninke BOOKS: Le mythe de Wagadou et la fin de l'empire de Ghana 1997. Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk (eds). Peuls et L' epopee des Koussa Mandingues: Dialectique des constructions L' epopee de Bakari Makhan Kamara identitaires. Preface de Jean-LoupAmselle, Leiden: 3. Les epopees wolof Afrika-Studiecentrum and Paris: Editions Karthala. L'epopee du Kajoor Premiere partie: Le Passe 4. La geste serere 1. "Les rapports entre la Diina peule du Maasina et les L'epopee de Sane Mone Faye populations du Delta interieur du Niger, vus au 5. Les epopees peules travers des traditions historiques et des fouilles L'epopee de Samba Gueladio Diegui archeologiques" by Anne Mayor La geste de Hambodedio du Kounari 2. "Economic Enterprise in Fulbe and Mande Studies: L'epopee de Silamaka et Poulorou Maasina and Samori" by Victor Azarya LePekane 3. "Islam, Ethnicity and Fulbe-Mande Relations in the L'epopee d'El Hadj Omar Era of Umar Tal's jihad" by John Hanson 6. Les epopees zarma-songhai-haoussa Deuxieme partie: Le Passe dans Ie Present La geste de Zabarkane, epopee zarma 4. '''Animist'/Islamized Imaging in the Western Sudan: L' epopee zarma d 'Issa Korombe the Fulbe's 'Bambara' in the Bamako region, c. Gama Gari Kanta et Agabba, epopee haoussa 1700-c. 1900" by B. Marie Perinbam Askia Mohamed Toure, epopee songhai 5. "La presence peule dans epopees du pays mandingue" Troisieme partie: Recits epiques d'afrique centrale et by Stephen Belcher orientale

.. 1. Les epopees claniques des regions forestieres survivors that belies their stereotype as pitiable victims. Les epopees du Mvet des Bulu-Fang His study reveals them instead as vibrant historical Olende, une epopee ombamba-teke actors ..It is an innovative contribution to the history of Lasagad'Ozidi, epopee des Ijo French colonialism and of socialism, dictatorship, and Les fils de Hitong, epopee bassa democracy in independent Africa. The example of Djeki la Njambe Inono. L'epopee douala leprosy in Mali also raises important questions about Lianja, I'epopee mongo-nkundo Western public health programs that emphasize Mwindo, I' epopee des Nyanga du Zaire biological cures with little regard for social 2. Les epopees royales et religieuses de la ceinture rehabilitation. orientale Les epopees swahili 1997. Katrin Pfeiffer (ed.). Mandinka Spoken Art: Folk- ~ Les epopees kinyarwanda Tales, Griot Accounts and Songs. Koln: Rudiger L' epopee zoulou: Chaka Koppe Verlag. pp. 310. Volume 4 of the series Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in Afrikanischen 1997. Tal Tamari. Les castes de l'Afrique occidentale. Sprachen, edited by Wilhelm J.G. Mohlig, ISBN 3- Artisans et musiciens endogames. Nanterre: Societe 927620-63-7 d'ethnologie. Pp. 464. According to an advertising flyer received from the Chapitre I: Les gens de caste dans la litterature editor, the main object of this volume is to present a ethnographique selection of the rich cultural heritage of The Gambia by Chapitre II: Reperes chronologiques: l'apparition des providing the written presentation of orally transmitted premieres castes Mandinka texts and their English translation. This Chapitre III: La fondation des premieres castes selection thus opens the opportunity for further studies Chapitre IV: Les developpements ulterieurs in the fields of spoken art, grammar, sociology, Chapitre V: Le cas du Sahara ethnology, history, and musicology. What was originally the book's first chapter was This volume contains a selection of twenty-eight published as andappendix at the publisher's insistence: folk-tales, three griot narratives and six songs arranged Appendice: Etude critique des sources according to the genre to which the individual texts Also listed among the contents: Introduction, belong. Each text is preceded by a short introduction Conclusion, Notes, Bibliographie Selective, Glossaire, about its content together with data about the Index, and Table des cartes et des tableaux informant, place and date of recording. The presentation Order from: Societe d'ethnologie, Maison Rene of the griot accounts is preceded by an alphabetic Ginouves, Universite de Paris X, 92023 Nanterre cedex; glossary with frequently occurring, culturally specific and from Editions Klincksieck, 8 rue de la Sorbonne, terms which remain untranslated in the English text. 75005 Paris. 270 FF plus shipping. 1997. Vladimir Arseniev. Bambara: gens dans 1997. Eric Silla. People are not the Same: Leprosy and l'economie de transition: essai sur l'organisation Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali. Portsmouth, traditionnelle de l'activite economique. Preface NH: Heinemann. d'Igor Sledzewsky, Postface d' Alexandre Subetto. Eric Silla adds a new dimension to the Social Saint-Petersburg: Academie des Sciences de la History of Africa Series through a compelling account Russie, Musee d' Anthropologie et d'Ethnographie of leprosy (Hansen's Disease) in colonial and post- Pierre-Ie-Grand (Kunstkammer) Institute de colonial Mali. Unlike many studies of health and I' Afrique. Pp. 260, 22 photographs, diagrams & disease, People are not the Same draws on an extensive charts. collection of life histories to elaborate the perspectives Except for the facing title page in French, this book is of patients themselves. It thereby weaves the in Russian. transformation of "leper" identities with changes in medical and social responses to the disease. By situating 1997. Jean-Loup Amselle. Mestizo Logics: seemingly local experiences of patients within the larger Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere. context of national and global change, Silla deepens our Translated by Claudia Royal. Stanford: Stanford historical understanding of a wide range of issues University Press. including stigma, marginality, begging, and migration. He explains how the debilitating nature of leprosy 1997. Alusine Jalloh and David E. Skinner (eds.). Islam interfered with one's ability to marry, farm, and and Trade in Sierra Leone. Trenton: Africa World participate in other facets of "normal" life. Leprosy Press. sufferers became outcasts in their villages and often migrated to treatment centers in Bamako and other 1998. Dolores Koenig, Tieman Diarra, and Moussa towns. At these centers, patients constructed self- Sow, with Ousmane Diarra, Makan Fofana, conscious communities which empowered them socially Yaouaga Felix Kone, Halimata Konate Simaga, and and politically. Fatoumata Maiga Maiga. Innovation and By privileging African voices in the experience of Individuality in African Development. Ann Arbor: disease, Silla presents a moving portrait of leprosy University of Michigan Press.

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