Migration et mutations du culte des génies Hauka du Niger vers la Gold-Coast (années 1920-1950)

Abstract

Migrations and Mutations of Hauka Geniuses Worship from Niger to Gold Coast (Years 1920-1950) Hauka are modern geniuses originally from songhay religion (Niger) and conditioned by colonial situation. Worship manages to establish itself in certain outskirts of Accra (Ghana) where it changed and consolidated. It is therefore in the contact of various cultures that the worship of 'geniuses of force'came to be renown so as to give birth, during the 1950's, to an almost autonomous religion. The phenomenon of Hauka allows to understand better the way exiles' community can bring with her its beliefs (myths) and its practices (rituals) to finally give birth to its own identity in the contact of new realities, and establish itself within its reception area.