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Title: | The Franco-Baoule war, 1891-1911: the struggle against the French conquest of central Ivory Coast |
Author: | O'Sullivan, John M. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 329-356 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire France |
Subjects: | Baoulé colonial conquest anticolonialism |
Abstract: | The central thesis of this article is that the war of resistance fought by the Baoulé people must be placed within the context of Baoule military activity prior to the arrival of the French. The continuity of African social and cultural organization in the colonial era emphasizes the need to see resistance not as a unique moment in African history, but as part of the flow of the history of the region. This view will help to develop the meaning of resistance so as to include the example of the Baoulé and in fact will call into question the validity of the concept. It will also allow a critical examination of the causes of the military confrontation that occurred between the French and the Baoulé. Map, notes. |