Landlords, Hosts, and Strangers among the Dyula

Launay, Robert

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“…The host assisted the visitor in buying, selling, and storing goods, and was directly or indirectly involved in trade (Launay, 1979). The involvement ranged from operating as an intermediary in transactions in the market to turning one's compound into a wholesale market from where traders could sell their wares and have a one-stop outlet to stock up on goods (Hill, 1966: 350).…”

Section: Historical Accounts Of Hosts and Long-distance Tradersmentioning

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China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning

Haugen

2018

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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A centre for Asian and intercontinental immigration and export-oriented production, the city of Guangzhou is at the forefront of China's extroversion. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines informal governance mechanisms that coordinate the circulation of goods and capital between China and Africa. The question to be addressed is: What roles do mobility and sojourning play in governing trade relations? The analysis is informed by research from three fields: economics scholarship on the trade-migration nexus, ethnographic studies of informal transborder trade, and historical accounts of long-distance trade in precolonial and colonial eras. These traditions point to different interlinkages between the mobility of people and goods. China's exports to Africa have increased in tandem with the number of visitations by African itinerant traders. The empirical discussion demonstrates that the emergence of intercontinental movements of goods and people between Mainland China and Africa was predicated on the brokering role played by African sojourners in Guangzhou. Of particular importance was informal hospitality and logistics infrastructure set up byAfricans in the late 1990s, which has subsequently evolved and adapted to new circumstances. This infrastructure has facilitated the mobility of people and goods and increased the pace at which trading capital circulates.

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Section: Historical Accounts Of Hosts and Long-distance Tradersmentioning

confidence: 99%

China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning

Haugen

2018

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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“…Dioula originating from different regions or towns of the Ivorian savannah were mutual ‘strangers’. Yet, while on the move, they owed each other reciprocal hospitality as ‘host’ and ‘landlord’ or diatigui (Launay 1979; Gary Tounkara 2008). In Lemassou Fofana's words: Etymologically, the diatigui designates the autochthon, the one who has always been there and who receives a newcomer.…”

Section: Xenophobic Muslims? Ethno-nationalist Cleavages From Withinmentioning

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“…Dioula originating from different regions or towns of the Ivorian savannah were mutual 'strangers'. Yet, while on the move, they owed each other reciprocal hospitality as 'host' and 'landlord' or diatigui (Launay 1979;Gary Tounkara 2008). In Lemassou Fofana's words:…”

Section: Xenophobic Muslims? Ethno-nationalist Cleavages From Withinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Islam in and Out: Cosmopolitan Patriotism and Xenophobia Among Muslims in Côte d'IVOIRE

Miran-Guyon¹

2016

Africa

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The nativist ideology of ivoirité of the 1990s generated brutal discriminatory policies against those labelled as ‘strangers’, especially Muslims. Reversing that perspective, this article focuses on the interface between religion and national identity in twentieth-century Côte d'Ivoire from within Muslim society. The argument is divided into two parts. The first puts forward the counter-hegemonic, patriotic-cum-cosmopolitan narratives that a new Muslim leadership formulated in order to write Islam into national history. The second focuses on grass-roots, demotic, day-to-day realities. It explores Muslim takes on belonging and alienation in practice, paying careful attention to the community's internal diversity. It shows how, over time, Ivorian Muslims have showcased varying degrees of cosmopolitan patriotism but also of their own, local xenophobia. The concluding section returns to the new Muslim leadership and its multifaceted endeavours to reconcile Muslim lived experiences with their cosmopolitan patriotic aspirations. The article ends with a short epilogue surveying the violent armed conflicts of the period 2002 to 2011 and how Muslims were a part of them.

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“…3 Historical and ethnographic literature related to Senegambia, and to West African cultures in general, extensively highlights the importance of attracting strangers in pre-colonial settings, as a strategy to strengthen the human resources of kinship groups, communities and even kingdoms. See Dorjahn and Fyfe (1962), Skinner (1965), Hill (1966), Quinn (1972), Fortes (1975), Galloway (1975), Wright (1977), Launay (1979), Mouser (1980), Peel (1983), Brooks (1993) and Richards (1996). Host-stranger relationships in the Mande world have been commented upon also by Amselle (1996) and Jansen (1996).…”

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Entrustment and its Changing Political Meanings in Fuladu, the Gambia (1880–1994)

Bellagamba¹

2004

Africa

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The practice of entrustment is a form of voluntary allegiance for the sake of protection, one which historically lies at the core of host–stranger relationships along the River Gambia. Deeply woven into the social fabric of local communities, it was appropriated by various historical subjects during the twentieth century in order to construct networks of political confidence and mutual assistance at a local and national level. This article traces this dynamic process of re-elaboration. In so doing, it takes into account the history of a Mandinka commercial settlement in eastern Gambia from the late nineteenth century to post-Independence times, and questions the shifts that occurred in the political significance of entrustment with changing social and economic scenarios. Contextualised in the longue durée, the practice of karafoo shows its relevance as a cultural resource encouraging the creation of networks of trust and interdependence in social settings historically characterised by seasonal and more stable forms of migration.

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Landlords, Hosts, and Strangers among the Dyula

Cited by 9 publications

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China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning

China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning

Islam in and Out: Cosmopolitan Patriotism and Xenophobia Among Muslims in Côte d'IVOIRE

Entrustment and its Changing Political Meanings in Fuladu, the Gambia (1880–1994)

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