Ohio University Press, 2007. — 319 p. — (New African Histories). — ISBN: 0821417657, 9780821417652, 0821417665, 9780821417669. In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation’s president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral,...
Diasporic Africa Press, 2017. — 248 p. Situated along the Senegal River, the Kingdom of Waalo was the smallest of the Wolof states of Senegal, but it illustrates the broader consequences of a shift from trans-Saharan to trans-Atlantic commerce during a time of competing European, Muslim, and indigenous African forces. From the establishment of a French trading post in 1659 to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-37121-1. This book examines the achievements and limitations of democratization in Senegal - and Africa more broadly - as a result of the continuing political culture of clientelism. Clientelist Democracy in Comparative Perspective. The Rise of Senegal’s Clientelist Democracy. Influential Brokers: The Murid Marabouts of...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 299 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). — ISBN: 978-0-521-41078-6. Although they are integrated into the world economy, most regimes in sub-Saharan Africa have not been very effective agents of capitalist development. Rulers have often used state power in ways that compromise, rather than promote, economic growth. In this book,...
Boston University, 1977. — 185 p. List of Maps and Tables Abbreviations Note on Orthography The Land and People of Jolof Jolof in Senegambia, 1800-1850 Succession Wars and Political Strife in Jolof, 1848-1864 Ma Ba and Jihad in Jolof Shaikh Amadu Ba's Jihad in Jolof Albuuri Njay and the Consolidation of Authority in Jolof Jolof and Resistance to French Imperialism in Senegal...
Second Edition. — The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1994. — 370 p. — (African Historical Dictionaries; 65). — ISBN: 978-0810827479. In entries of a paragraph to a couple of pages long, provides information on the history, economics, politics, and society of the African country where Islamic and coastal elements merge. Includes an extensive, unannotated bibliography of works in French...
Duke University Press, 2018. — 217 p. — ISBN: 9781478002505 Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash...
University of Rochester Press, 2007. — (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora). — ISBN: 978–1–58046–268–6. The Murid order, founded in Senegal in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, grew into a major Sufi order during the colonial period and is now among the most recognizable of the Sufi orders in Africa. Murids have spread the voice of Islam and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-44596-7. In this book, Parent puts together a history of representations of the 1944 mutiny in Senegal. Combining firsthand analysis of the works and their intertextual interactions as well an external perspective, Parent engages with history, literature, film, poetics, and politics and highlights the importance of...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 252 p. — (African Studies; 78). — ISBN: 0-521-44083-1. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 360 p. — (African Studies; 80). — ISBN: 0-521-46007-7. The Sufi Muslim orders to which the vast majority of Senegalese belong are the most significant institutions of social organization in the country. While studies of Islam and politics have tended to focus on the destabilizing force of religiously based groups, Leonardo Villalon argues...
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