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The Kingdom of Waalo

Senegal Before the Conquest

By: Boubacar Barry

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The Kingdom of Waalo

Senegal Before the Conquest

By: Boubacar Barry

Situated along the Senegal River, the Kingdom of Waalo was the smallest of the Wolof states of Senegal, but it illustrates the broader consequences of a shift from trans-Saharan to trans-Atlantic commerce during a time of competing European, Muslim, and indigenous African forces. From the establishment of a French trading post in 1659 to the early nineteenth century, the history of Waalo was closely tied to French interests in St. Louis, popular revolutionary Islamic movements, and internal rivalries between competing royal families and provincial leaders. Stimulating Waalo's socio-political changes were the devastations and fluctuations of the Atlantic slave trade, as well as the Muslim attack on its aristocracy. Torn by internal divisions, devastated by French and Berber incursions, Waalo's institutions and its economy declined. Residents of Waalo sought their own solutions only for external agents to ruin their efforts. By the nineteenth century, the French attempted to establish a plantation economy in Waalo, culminating in their military control of the state and the Senegal valley. This newly translated study is a vital tool in our understanding of Senegal's history, its place in the era of trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic commerce, and its development into the present. The book should be of value to African studies scholars, anthropologists, and historians of Africa, colonialism, empire, and post-colonialism.

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Diasporic Africa Press

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1937306003

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9781937306007

Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

By: Adeoti, Adeoti, Barry, Boubacar, Namara, Regassa, Kamara, Abdul, Titiati, Atsu

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Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

By: Adeoti, Adeoti, Barry, Boubacar, Namara, Regassa, Kamara, Abdul, Titiati, Atsu

Treadle pump (TP) technology has been promoted by Enterprise Works Worldwide (EWW) as an alternative to the traditional rope and bucket irrigation that is necessary to overcome the challenge of uncertain and inadequate rainfall for agricultural production. The aim is to improve output, increase incomes and reduce poverty among farm households. This study examines the strategies used for dissemination of the TP and the dynamics of its adoption and impacts, with a special focus on poverty reduction. The results of the study reveal that time and labor savings for irrigation, increased size of irrigated areas and lack of fuel requirements are the attractive features of the TP for those who adopt it. Adoption of TP increases land and labor productivities; and also net farm incomes. The study also demonstrates that adoption of the TP reduces poverty.

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9290906715

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9789290906711

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

In West Africa, especially in the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Mauritania, erratic rainfall sequences within and between years has often led to a high uncertainty in rainfed crop production. Over the past three decades, severe food shortages attributed to drought have been frequently reported in several Sahelian countries, most of which are amongst the least developed of the world. Innovative and indigenous ways to achieve improved crop yields through integrated land and water management such as rainwater harvesting and soil water conservation have been successfully tested and, in some cases, adopted in West Africa. This paper highlights the successful interventions of improved indigenous rainwater harvesting/soil water conservation technologies such as ZaÃ¯ or tassa, stone rows and half-moon in the Sahelian zones of West Africa over the past 10 years, and their contributions to enhancing food security and alleviating poverty. The potential for adoption of these technologies at the farm level and their outscaling to areas with similar agroecological zones are also discussed.

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9290906847

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9789290906841

The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control

Botswana, Ivory Coast, and Kenya in Comparative Perspective

By: Boubacar N'Diaye

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The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control

Botswana, Ivory Coast, and Kenya in Comparative Perspective

By: Boubacar N'Diaye

Assessing three of the most enduring civilian regimes in Africa--Botswana, Kenya, and, until the December 1999 coup, the Ivory Coast--Boubacar N'Diaye focuses on the role of civilian regimes in the institutionalization of civilian control. The author warns that only government legitimacy and a culture of genuine military professionalism are likely to assure civilian control of the military. N'Diaye calls for a bold conceptual shift in the study of African civil-military relations away from expedient short-term coup avoidance. Refreshingly, his study emphasizes the policies regimes enact instead of the structures of African societies or the personal idiosyncrasies of leaders. This book has important implications not only for understanding the causes and outcomes of coups in Africa, but also for the study of emerging democracies everywhere.

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216

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Lexington Books

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0739102397

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9780739102398

Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Boubacar Barry

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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Boubacar Barry

Authoritative account of 400 years of West African history by a leading scholar.

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394

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Cambridge University Press

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0521597609

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9780521597609

The Kingdom of Waalo

Senegal Before the Conquest

By: Boubacar Barry

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Senegal Before the Conquest

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

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Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks

By: Boubacar Boris Diop

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Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks

By: Boubacar Boris Diop

The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies. With a narrative structure that beautifully imitates the movements of a musical piece, Diop relates Faye’s trauma of losing his only son, Assane Tall, which is compounded by his grandson Badou’s migration to an unknown destination. While Faye feels certain that his grandson will return one day, he also is convinced that he will no longer be alive by then. Faye spends his days sitting under a mango tree in the courtyard of his home, reminiscing and observing his surroundings. He speaks to Badou through his seven notebooks, six of which are revealed to the reader, while the seventh, the “Book of Secrets,” is highly confidential and reserved for Badou’s eyes only. In the absence of letters from Badou, the notebooks form the only possible means of communication between the two, carrying within them tunes and repetitions that give this novel its unusual shape: loose and meandering on the one hand, coherent and tightly interwoven on the other. Translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop.

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MSU Press

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1628952741

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Kaveena

By: Boubacar Boris Diop

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Kaveena

By: Boubacar Boris Diop

This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist. Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator, N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.

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Indiana University Press

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0253020565

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9780253020567

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The Kingdom of Waalo

The Kingdom of Waalo

Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control

The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control

Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

The Kingdom of Waalo

The Kingdom of Waalo

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks

Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks

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