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Title: | Saints and politicians: essays in the organisation of a Senegalese peasant society |
Author: | O'Brien, Donal B. Cruise |
Year: | 1975 |
Issue: | 15 |
Pages: | 213 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
ISBN: | 0521205727 |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | Muslim brotherhoods Wolof political elite politics Sufism |
Abstract: | This book focuses on African political leadership in Senegal from the French conquest to the present time. African leaders and communities adjusted to new and unfamiliar deamands b7 a complex pattern of cultural and strructural interaction. This theme is elaborated in the following essays: (1) 'Warlord, saint and knight' is a study of 3 outstanding Wolof personalities at the time of the French conquest, viewed against the background of crisis in Wolof society at that time; (2) 'Chief, saints and bureaucrats' shows the pattern of leadership types under colonial rule; (3) 'Land, cash and charisma' deals with authority within a religious community; (4) 'Bureaucrats and co-operators' analyses the peanut marketing network which the French imposed, and which has changed the face of Wolof society, as it has worked both before and after Senegalese independence in 1960; (5) 'Clans, clienteles and communities' shows the emergence of the leadership of the modern Senegalese state and deals with electoral or party politics. |