Una diáspora sin patria: los descendientes de esclavos y las políticas culturales de ascendencia en el Alto Valle del río Gambia

Gaibazzi, Paolo

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“…The choice for flight -in spite of its high risk and emotional costs -renders concubinage visible as an institution that marginalizes and alienates these women from the basic rights, expectations and norms for accessing human dignity available to women in the Sahel: that of marriage and motherhood (Cooper 2019). Maybe with the described exception of the village of refuge called Zongon Ablo, these women have become a 'diaspora without a homeland' , a term evoked by Gaibazzi (2013) in the context of men with slave status among the Soninke in The Gambia.…”

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Invisibility in African Displacements

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Bellagamba¹

2016

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade

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Research on African slavery covers a variety of situations and contexts that show both parallels and divergences due to local historical trajectories. In relation to the role of slavery, the slave trade and its abolition in the historical experience of African individuals and communities, oral sources can provide insight into the lives of African slaves, slavers and their contemporary descendants. These materials were important in the 1960s and early 1970s, when research on African slavery started, and they remain so today thanks to the growing activism of slave 1 This chapter was completed thanks to funding from the European Research Council in the framework of the ERC project 313737-Shadows of Slavery in West Africa and Beyond: A Historical Anthropology. I also thank the EURIAS program, the Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin and the Gilder Lerhman Centes for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition of the University of Yale. Research in the Senegambia was carried out under the auspices of MEBAO Missione Etnologica in Bénin e Africa Occidentale , a project financed from 2000 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Post-Slavery Refractions: Subjectivity and Slave Descent in a Gambian Life Story

Gaibazzi¹

2016

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The article draws on the life story of Musa, a Soninke man from a Gambian village, to shed light on the experience and subjective dimension of slave descent in West Africa. After spending most of his life abroad as a migrant, Musa retired to his home village and came to terms with his status identity as a slave descendant. Rather than by status hierarchies alone, however, Musa's social position was modulated by other aspirations and obligations, particularly those inherent in becoming an elder and a returnee. These predicaments of the self, constructed on the basis of age, masculinity and cosmopolitan knowledge, shaped his life and delineated the space in which he variously interpreted and navigated the legacy of slavery. By foregrounding the ways in which slave descent is dynamically refracted by this broader process of self-making, this article thus goes beyond a framework centred primarily on fixed status identities and on the dynamics of resistance/submission, highlighting instead the multifaceted, even contradictory, positioning of slave descendants in post-slavery Senegambia.

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Una diáspora sin patria: los descendientes de esclavos y las políticas culturales de ascendencia en el Alto Valle del río Gambia

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Invisibility in African Displacements

Invisibility in African Displacements

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Post-Slavery Refractions: Subjectivity and Slave Descent in a Gambian Life Story

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