This article explores the term “sunu coosan” as a Senegalese trope of self‐articulation and
as a semiotic strategy in contemporary discourses surrounding nationhood. The term …

Prior to their conversion to Christianity, Asabano boys and women were forbidden to play
drums, lest they become aroused and promiscuous. The origin myth of the drum, revealed …

I write this chapter from Brasılia, the Bauhaus-esque leviathan that thrusts up out of Brazil's
central plateau, a pop-up book of modernist blueprints of utopia. Planned, designed …

This paper explores the storytelling of griots as a method of traditional communication and
education in Africa to determine if there are storytelling methods and outcomes which can be …

This dissertation asks how musical practices are entangled in processes of social change,
examining how griot performers and wrestlers employ music to comment on recent …

This chapter highlights some texts written by Cape Verdeans now living in the US As more
Cape Verdeans pursue work and higher education abroad, increasing numbers feel …

Dans le contexte de mutations sociotechniques qui accompagnent la nouvelle
mondialisation des échanges culturels et économiques, les travailleurs d'Afrique de l'Ouest …

Sin dagli anni'70, ossia da quando ha co-minciato a occuparsene, l'antropologia culturale
ha analizzato il mondo del turismo con un approccio fortemente critico, in particolare nel …

È in una stanza del sovraffollato campus universitario di Dakar che incontro per la prima
volta Baba, Samba e Moustapha, i componenti del gruppo rap Nieri Ko. Nessuno di loro vive …

Danse des quartiers populaires de Dakar, le sabar fait l'objet de reconfigurations
professionnelles et spatiales. Autrefois défini par la naissance au sein d'une lignée de …