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MANSA Meeting .,...International Conference on Mande Studies ANSA MANSA Meeting acquired a number of firm commitments of The twenty-first annual meeting of the Mande support as well as some tentative offers to be Studies Association will be held in San confirmed later: Francisco at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on 1. The Culture Director Rui Pereira Saturday, November 18th from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. responded that the Lisbon Town-Hall (Camara Municipal de Lisboa) is offering conference .,...International Conference on Mande participants a boat tour on the Tagus River (Rio Studies (Update) Tejo) with dinner on board. As unanimously and enthusiastically decided at 2. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of the 2005 annual MANSA meeting (see MANSA Lisbon has committed to funding the travel, Newsletter 58, p. 5), the 7th International accommodation, and a "per diem" for from two Conference on Mande Studies will be held in to six African colleagues coming from West Lisbon, Portugal, 24-28 June, 2008. Our Africa, conference coordinators in Lisbon are Jose da 3. The Foundation for Science and Silva Horta and Eduardo Costa Dias. Among Technology (FCf - Portuguese Science) has those collaborating with them on arrangements been contacted because "they usually support in Lisbon will be MANSA members Peter Mark this kind of international scientific event with an and Lucy Duran. Peter is well acquainted with average of 2500 euro" (official request for Lisbon, and our Portuguese organizers report sponsorship to be submitted September 2(07). that they are counting on him to help them "in 4. The President of the Board of Lisbon making the MANSA members' stay nice and University-ISCTE (Instituto Superior de stimulating." They also tell us that Lucy is well Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa) has acquainted with Mande musicians living in promised us use of the ISCfE facilities including Portugal who might perform for us, and that she two meeting-halls of c. 150 places. They include might help our colleagues with suggestions and a coffee break, and lunch will be partially contacts to possibly bring one or two musicians sponsored to give us a reduced price. from Africa, 5. There are two fine hotels a few minutes Jose da Silva Horta and Eduardo Costa Dias from each other and within walking distance of have already made amazing progress with the conference venue. The hotels are near the conference arrangements, certainly Metro with easy and quick access to the town accomplishing everything possible this far in historical center and nearby commercial areas. advance of June 2008. In recentup-dates The rate is 48 euro per night with breakfast Note submitted for MANSA Newsletter, Jose reports that the rate is for the room, not per person, so that Professor Costa Dias has been very active the price is the same regardless of whether the contacting various agencies, and that he has room is occupied by one or two people. David C. Conrad, President, State University of New York-Oswego Kassim Kone, Vice-President, State University of New York-Cortland Laura Arntson, Secretary-Treasurer, USAID AdYisory Board Seydou Camara, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University P.F. de Moraes Farias, Birmingham University, U.K. Dolores Koenig, American University Allen Howard, Rutgers University Valentine Vydrine, St. Petersburg, Russia ~ International Conference in Lisbon Update seems, was mesmerized by the sound of the four (continued) strings of the ngoni, the Bamana lute. The ngoni 6. The following institutions have been is the special instrument of griots from Segu, a contacted, but they have not yet responded city of the Bamana people in central Mali on the because our extremely efficient Lisbon organizers Niger. Few people outside Mali are familiar with are working so far in advance, and requests for Bamana griot music, but in Mali it holds a funding can only be made one year in advance: cherished place as symbol of Bamana Segu, one Camoes Institute (Instituto Cam6es - Lisbon) of the last of Mali's great pre-colonial empires. Luso-American Foundation (FLAD - Lisbon) The Bamana (Bambara) fiercely resisted both 7. During the conference, there will be a few Islam and French colonisation and practiced their local staff members on hand to help with details. own indigenous beliefs and cultural values. Professor Eduardo Costa Dias and Dr. Jose Bassekou and his group, Ngoni ba, a unique da Silva Horta are to be commended for already quartet of ngonis, not only recreate (and rescue) accomplishing everything that can be done this some of the classic old Bamana pieces, like far in advance of the conference. The pace of Bakari Jan, but they also play their own their activities will obviously pick up in compositions in the Bamana style, with a September, 2007, and that is when I will be thoroughly contemporary approach. issuing the official call for papers and panels. For over 15 years Bassekou's remarkable However, for those who plan to participate, it is ngoni playing has contributed to the sound of not too early to be thinking about paper and panel many musicians both Malian and from around the topics. (I've already heard from two or three world, but this is his first solo album and a people who are doing that) unique showcase for the stunning Bamana Lisbon will be a very popular venue, and I tradition and its instrument the ngoni, one of suspect that there could be an unusually large West Africa's treasures yet to be discovered by number of submissions. The usual guidelines will international audiences. be repeated with the the call to papers, but it On every national holiday in Mali, and at all should be stated at the outset that owing to times of political change or crisis, the music of experiences at earlier Mande conferences in both the great blind ngoni player from Segu, Africa and Europe, I am recommending to our Banzoumana Sissoko (d. 1987), is played all day MANSA officers and Advisory Board members on the radio. He was famous for his as well as panel organizers, that for this uncompromising and outspoken criticisms of conference we take particular pains to stress the Mali's post-independent leaders. An enormous importance of the following: (a) Maintaining high painting of Banzoumana hangs on the wall of scholarly standards, i.e., detailed abstracts will be Mali's concert hall, Palais de la Culture, the required and current and past board members will largest concert hall in West Africa. He is be asked to carefully screen all paper proposals. considered a national treasure, testifying to the (b) Making sure that no one is allowed to "crash" importance of Griot culture in Mali until today - the conference, i.e., presenting a paper without and he is Bassekou Kouyate's grandfather. paying membership and registration fees by the Bassekou Kouyate is descended on both his advance deadline (panel organizers are mother's and father's side from a long line of responsible for letting non-members know the griots who used to be attached to the Bamana requirements and verifying participant legitimacy rulers. He grew up in Garana, a village some 60 with Laura Arntson). kilometres west of Segu, where he and his brothers were steeped in the Bamana tradition, Feature Article: SEGU BLUE learning its vast repertoire of songs, dating A Ground-breaking CD of Bamana ngoni mostly from the Bamana imperial era and earlier; Music Produced by Lucy Duran and inheriting the gift of the ngoni. Though he Introduction to the album has lived in Bamako since he was 19, Bassekou "Juru nani fo" - play the four strings! This remains in close touch with his roots. song (track 4 on the album) is a version of a 200 The Niger has given rise to major year old song called "Bakari Jan", in honour of civilizations, with their own vibrant musical an early 19th Century Malian warrior, who, it cultures. One of these, the Bamana Empire 2 (1712-1861) with its capital at Segu, has long The death of Biton Coulibaly was followed captured the imagination of explorers, writers, by a period of anarchy (1757-1766) with and scholars. Mungo Park, the Scots traveller, successive rule by three former war captives until was the first to describe it when he visited in a fourth, Ngolo Diarra (1766-1787) founded a 1797 during the reign of Monson Diarra, son of dynasty that lasted until 1861. His grandson Da Ngolo (see below). In his book Travels ~nthe Monzon Diarra (ruled from 1807-27) was the Interior Districts of Africa (a diary of his journey most celebrated of the Segu rulers, remembered to track the course of the Niger), Park writes to this day in many griot songs. "The view of this extensive city; the numerous The griots played an extremely important role as canoes upon the river; the crowded population, advisor to the Bamana rulers; they inspired and the cultivated state of the surrounding warriors to be brave the night before the battle. country, formed altogether a prospect of Segu's music is haunting, visceral, sometimes civilisation and magnificence, which I little with driving dance rhythms, sometimes slow and expected to find in the bosom of Africa". bluesy, such as the tune Poyi, in honour of the The American anthropologist Harold greatest warriors (also called poyi). In Segu, a Courlander wrote down the epic tales of Segu in noble and fearless warrior could become a his book The Heart of the ngoni. The French captive at any moment - or maybe sold into Antilles author Maryse Conde's novel Segu is a slavery across the Atlantic; and the brooding kind of Gone With the Wind that begins with the melody of Poyi resonated throughout central reign of Monzon Diarra and ends with the fall of Mali, with versions as far north as Timbuktu and the empire in 1861.
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