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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saul, Mahir, 1951- author.

Royer, Patrick, author.

Series:

Western African Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Anti-imperialist movements.

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

Africa, French-speaking West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Contributes to the anthropology of colonialism, the military history of indigenous Africa, and to theoretical debates on structure and agency.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Note on Spelling and Maps

Introduction

The Scope of the War

The Anticolonial Leadership

War, Colonialism, and Anthropology

The Ethnic Puzzle

Intentions and Structures

Colony, Postcolony, Hegemony

The Volta-Bani War in Historiographic Discourse

Our Sources

Chapter 1. The West Volta in the Nineteenth Century

The Invention of the Village in the West Volta

Ritual Ties among Villages

Defensive Leagues

The Institution of War

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

Wahabu

The Zaberma Allies

Al-Kari of Buse

The Beginnings of French Occupation in Northern Volta

French Expansion to the South

Chapter 3. An Incomplete Colonial Occupation

The Territorial Organization

Models of Native Society

Native Heads of State

"Ruling over the Footpaths"

Chapter 4. Before the Storm

The Colonial Administration in Dedougou: Maguet and Haillot

The Marabout "Conspiracy"

The Affair of the Guards

The Conscription Campaign of November 1915

Maubert and Chie¶y Policy in the Cercle of Bobo-Dioulasso

Chapter 5. The Call to Arms

Planning the War

The League of Bona

War against the Cruel: Two Narratives

Chapter 6. The First Victories of the Anticolonial Party

The Two Battles of Bona

The Siege of Bondokuy

Heading for the Great Clash

Yankaso

A Fallen Divinity

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

The Molard Column: Constitution, Armament, and Strategy

Responding to Local Military Strategy: Molard's First Campaign

Wiping Villages off the Map: Molard's Second Campaign

A Turning Point in French Strategy and First Submissions

Samo Country

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

The Social Contours of the Opposition

A Series of Disconnected Sorties

The Repression in the Sambla-Tusia Zone

The Hecatomb of Boho

Final Confrontations and their Sequel

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

Resistance and Accommodation in the Early Colonial Period

The Anticolonial Leadership in San and Neighboring Cercles

The Early Anticolonial Success (February to March 1916)

A Stopgap Reaction: The Carpentier Column

The Cercle of Bandiagara

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

The Simonin Column in the Cercle of San

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

The Paci¤cation (July to August 1916)

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

The Gurunsi at the Time of Conquest

The Marabout Affair in Koudougou

The Beginnings of the Movement among the Gurunsi: The Leadership

Preparation for War

First Phase of the Gurunsi Con¶ict (January to March 1916)

Second Phase (March 7 to May 12 1916)

The Cadence Column (May to August 1916)

Conclusion

Military Occupation

The Native Command

The "Impulse to Revolt"

The Creation of Upper Volta

The Aftermath of the War

Appendix : Letters Used as Evidence in the Muslim Conspiracy Trials

Notes

Glossary of Colonial Terms

Archival Sources

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80010-670-X

1-80010-669-6

OCLC:

1350442487