Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000311
Folahanmi Aina
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S000197202300027X
Samiha Rahman
Abstract Since the 1980s, hundreds of predominantly working-class African-American Muslims have travelled or relocated to the rural yet renowned city of Medina Baye, Senegal. They were invited there by Shaykh Hassan Cisse, a Senegalese Islamic scholar and leader in the Tijani tariqa (Sufi order). This article focuses on the experiences of African-American and fellow diaspora Black Muslims living and learning with African Muslims in the Tijani hub of Medina Baye. It interrogates the assumptions, expectations and misunderstandings that characterize relationships between the two groups. I argue that, as members of the Tijani tariqa, diaspora Black disciples become integrated within the local system of collective care modelled by African disciples. Complicating analyses of African–diasporic exchanges that tend to differentiate and hierarchize the interconnected economic hardships facing diaspora Black and continental African communities, I argue that the relationship between these groups illustrates the role of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse’s branch of the Tijani tariqa as a counterhegemonic social movement offering new paradigms of social and economic reciprocity that enable Black Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic to mitigate the contemporary impacts of racial capitalism and global apartheid.
自20世纪80年代以来，数以百计的以工人阶级为主的非裔美国穆斯林前往或搬迁到塞内加尔著名的农村城市麦地那贝耶。他们是受谢赫·哈桑·西塞(Shaykh Hassan Cisse)的邀请，西塞是塞内加尔伊斯兰学者和苏菲派(Tijani tariqa)领袖。本文重点介绍非洲裔美国人和散居海外的黑人穆斯林在麦地那湾提贾尼中心与非洲穆斯林一起生活和学习的经历。它质疑了两个群体之间关系的假设、期望和误解。我认为，作为Tijani tariqa的成员，散居的黑人门徒融入了以非洲门徒为榜样的当地集体关怀体系。对散居海外的黑人和非洲大陆社区所面临的相互关联的经济困难进行区分和分级的非洲移民交流的复杂分析，我认为，这些团体之间的关系说明了Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse的Tijani tariqa分支作为反霸权社会运动的作用，它提供了社会和经济互惠的新范式，使大西洋两岸的黑人穆斯林能够减轻种族资本主义和全球种族隔离的当代影响。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000335
Peter Unseth
war’ (as discussed in a 1978 letter Savoy references) are evidence that the rhetoric and tactics employed to undermine restitution efforts a half-century ago do not simply remain with us but were formative in the production of today’s contentious cultural property landscape, an ongoing and enduring haunting. As such, Africa’s Struggle for Its Art is both a warning sign and a roadmap that helps clarify the mechanisms through which postcolonial defeat is reproduced across generations. While the book ostensibly examines the spectre of decades-old European restitution debates, its richness lies in its pertinence to the multiple intersecting ‘crises’ through which we are living and, perhaps optimistically, a parable for ways to navigate the pitfalls and failures of our forebears as we move through this current moment of institutional decolonization.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000256
J. Noret
Abstract Drawing on research conducted in southern Benin since 2000, this article explores the entanglements between grief, social status and funerals, and accounts for the conditions and the motives of the massive and multifarious investments – inextricably psychic, social and economic – in funerals that can be witnessed locally. I argue that, far from being mere ‘conspicuous consumption’, funeral expenses should be understood as the product of a number of intersecting dynamics, as the lavishness of these events cannot conceal the burden they represent and the anxieties they feed. In fact, filial duties and politics of reputation often entwine to give an existential dimension to these occasions, reinforcing one another to lead social subjects to engage important economic means and to bury their dead ‘at all costs’. In fact, as internalized norms and social pressures finally convince most mourners to organize obsequies beyond their means, the psychic and social tensions of funerals regularly constitute the all too common hidden face of the more commonly reported lavishness.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000189
Constance Smith
Abstract This article considers the materiality and substance of the built environment in Nairobi in light of concerns about surface, depth and the power of the unseen. Taking Nairobi’s high-rise construction boom and a recent spate of collapsed buildings as its starting point, it examines how longstanding ideas about the hidden and invisible dynamics of African cities do not operate in a realm distinct from the material world, but often stem from it: the stuff from which the city is made generates thought and action. High-rise buildings are sometimes described as ‘icebergs’ (structures where much of what is going on is under the surface) or as ‘fakes’ (buildings that superficially promise something, but that are qualitatively and morally suspect). Exploring Nairobi’s construction industry from sites of building collapse, I show how an emerging vertical materiality in the city’s built environment drives debates about deception, (im)moral economies and popular suspicions of power, complicating discourses about the relationship of surface to underneath. I examine how Nairobi’s frail buildings induce anxieties about the seen and the unseen, illuminating how the materials of verticality are entangled in economies of deception.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000177
Nick Rahier
Abstract In Nakuru, a secondary city in Kenya, the city’s future is explored multi-sensorially. In this article, I argue that Nakuru residents explore urban futures through the taste of different kinds of foods. I examine how the relational power of taste not only triggers visceral imaginaries of greener and ‘cooler’ futures in which bodies and landscapes grow more ample, lush and healthy but also invokes memories of, and nostalgia for, pasts in which the entanglements of foods were configured differently, often explained as more ‘authentic’ and ‘clean’ (safi). I argue against vision as the most important sense-making tool to look back at lost pasts and to ‘imagine’ healthier urban futures. Instead, I demonstrate how futures in Nakuru are experienced and given shape by engaging in critical gustatory explorations of the real, tangible materialities of different kinds of food that flow through the city.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000050
Yassin Dia
{"title":"Alice Bullard, Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal: A History of Transcultural Psychiatry. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £96 – 978 0 367 63100 0). 2022, 264 pp.","authors":"Yassin Dia","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"56 1","pages":"184 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77874597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000037
Yasir Zaidan
{"title":"Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. London: Verso (pb £11.99 – 978 1 7866 3482 5). 2021, v + 384 pp.","authors":"Yasir Zaidan","doi":"10.1017/s0001972023000037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001972023000037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"91 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72439474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000207
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