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| Title: | The Coming State. Reactions of Nomadic Groups in the Western Sudan to the Expansion of the Colonial Powers |
| Author: | Klute, Georg |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Periodical: | Nomadic Peoples |
| Issue: | 38 |
| Pages: | 49-71 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | West Africa |
| Subjects: | colonial conquest nomads History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43123473 |
| Abstract: | Between 1850 and 1880, the period prior to colonization, Africans and Europeans had long known each other, be it in the field of trade, diplomacy, slavery or scholarship. It is therefore surprising when European scholars assert that Africans might not have been prepared for and were totally overtaken by their colonizers. The presence of the French in Senegal at the time, and their expansionist intentions since the conquest of Algiers in 1830, aroused mixed feelings in the Sahara and West Africa. The nomadic groups in this region, whose economic mainstay involved particularly long distance caravan commercial activities, feared future political and economic domination, and/or rivalry from foreigners, be it from Europe or the Ottoman Empire. In order to cope with future aggression, most nomadic groups procured modern weapons, reorganized themselves, offered military resistance, and took diplomatic measures in an attempt to outwit foreign powers. The Tuareg, in particular, tried to integrate foreign powers, Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire alike, into a system of arrangements which aimed at preventing foreign domination. The coming of the colonial State aroused feelings of national unity even among those nomadic groups which until then were not organized beyond the regional level. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French and Spanish. |
