The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization 1712-1920 - Hardcover

Djata, Sundiata A. K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558761314 ISBN 13: 9781558761315

Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Djata, Sundiata A. K.

About this title

About the Author:

Sundiata A. Djata is an assistant professor of history at the University of Northern Illinois.

Review:

This book is an attempt to trace the evolution of an African state over a long period... Djata....begins with an 18th-century state in the Niger Valley and then consistently centers his analysis on it... He uses this approach to engage the conception of ethnic group widely used in scholarly literature as a means of showing that a Bamana identity shaped by this state developed from it and retained its significance even after the state had lost its sovereignty.

Djata seeks to connect his reconstruction of the history of the Middle Niger to larger issues of identity and identity formation in Africanist historiography.... His discussion of the role of Bamana forces in the occupation of Segu, which downplays French claims about their conquest, is particularly well developed....carefully researched using extensive archival documents supplemented with both Djata's original oral research and oral research conducted by earlier scholars. Djata's book is clearly written and is ! a worthy addition to the literature on the history of the Western Sudan, on the jihad period of West African history, and the imposition of colonial rule, as well as on issues of identity formation in Africa. -- International Journal of African Historical Research, vol. 30, no. 3 - 1999

About this edition

• Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558761314
• ISBN 13: 9781558761315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 251