West African challenge to empire : culture and history in the Volta-Bani anticolonial war / by Mahir Şaul and Patrick Royer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saul, Mahir, 1951-

Contributor:

Royer, Patrick Yves.

Series:

Western African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-imperialist movements--Africa, French-speaking West--History--20th century.

Anti-imperialist movements.

History.

Africa, French-speaking West--History, Military--20th century.

Africa, French-speaking West.

Physical Description:

xiii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, : Ohio University Press ; Oxford, [England] : James Curry, 2001.

Contents:

The Scope of the War 3

The Anticolonial Leadership 6

War, Colonialism, and Anthropology 10

The Ethnic Puzzle 14

Intentions and Structures 17

Colony, Postcolony, Hegemony 20

The Volta-Bani War in Historiographic Discourse 23

Our Sources 28

Chapter 1 The West Volta in the Nineteenth Century 30

The Invention of the Village in the West Volta 31

Ritual Ties among Villages 37

Defensive Leagues 39

The Institution of War 46

Chapter 2 The Muslim Houses of the Volta and the Beginnings of French Occupation 51

Wahabu 53

The Zaberma Allies 57

Al-Kari of Buse 60

The Beginnings of French Occupation in Northern Volta 63

French Expansion to the South 68

Chapter 3 An Incomplete Colonial Occupation 74

The Territorial Organization 74

Models of Native Society 76

Native Heads of State 80

"Ruling over the Footpaths" 84

Chapter 4 Before the Storm 89

The Colonial Administration in Dedougou: Maguet and Haillot 89

The Marabout "Conspiracy" 91

The Affair of the Guards 98

The Conscription Campaign of November 1915 103

Maubert and Chiefly Policy in the Cercle of Bobo-Dioulasso 108

Chapter 5 The Call to Arms 120

Planning the War 120

The League of Bona 127

War against the Cruel: Two Narratives 132

Chapter 6 The First Victories of the Anticolonial Party 141

The Two Battles of Bona 142

The Siege of Bondokuy 148

Heading for the Great Clash 158

Yankaso 161

A Fallen Divinity 168

Chapter 7 Terror as Strategy: The War in the Cercle of Dedougou 173

The Molard Column: Constitution, Armament, and Strategy 174

Responding to Local Military Strategy: Molard's First Campaign 179

Wiping Villages off the Map: Molard's Second Campaign 197

A Turning Point in French Strategy and First Submissions 205

Samo Country 209

Chapter 8 The War in the Cercle of Bobo-Dioulasso 213

The Social Contours of the Opposition 218

A Series of Disconnected Sorties 222

The Repression in the Sambla-Tusia Zone 226

The Hecatomb of Boho 229

Final Confrontations and their Sequel 231

Chapter 9 The Pilgrim and the Shrines: The War in Koutiala, San, and Bandiagara 236

Resistance and Accommodation in the Early Colonial Period 238

The Anticolonial Leadership in San and Neighboring Cercles 242

The Early Anticolonial Success (February to March 1916) 244

A Stopgap Reaction: The Carpentier Column 247

The Cercle of Bandiagara 251

Ants into Warriors: Tradition and Islam in the Attack of Koro 257

The Simonin Column in the Cercle of San 259

Molard's Campaign West of the Muhun River (July 1916) 265

The Pacification (July to August 1916) 267

Chapter 10 East of the Volta: The War in the Cercle of Ouagadougou 271

The Gurunsi at the Time of Conquest 272

The Marabout Affair in Koudougou 273

The Beginnings of the Movement among the Gurunsi: The Leadership 276

Preparation for War 282

First Phase of the Gurunsi Conflict (January to March 1916) 284

Second Phase (March 7 to May 12 1916) 288

The Cadence Column (May to August 1916) 291

Military Occupation 302

The Native Command 305

The "Impulse to Revolt" 306

The Creation of Upper Volta 307

The Aftermath of the War 311

Appendix Letters Used as Evidence in the Muslim Conspiracy Trials 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-383) and index.

ISBN:

0852554745

0852554796

0821414135

0821414143

OCLC:

47126766