Changing Times
A West African Patriarch Tells His-Story
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Beschreibung
Changing Times: Considering the many African refugees seeking Asylum in our rich European countries nowadays and our lack of knowledge about their social background, Bakary Sidibe’s stories about his life and his explanations about his Gambian society help us to feel more connected with the newcomers and to understand them as people with their own history and values. Bakary Sidibe also shows us how the destabilising influence of the colonial rulers on the traditional social, economic and political structures of African societies still affects the life of the people today. Their young men with no employment and no perspectives at home are now seeking their fortunes in Europe.
In this book Bakary Sidibe tells you about his childhood and youth in the colonial times of Senegambia, his studies in England in the late forties, his fight for independence and his political and educational work. He tells about the Senegambian family life, culture and the oral history of the Jali/Griots, about Sanawuya/Joking relationships and how he built up an cultural archive and museum.
There are no other books like this.
Autor*in
Ulla Fels
Ulla Fels, 1952 in Stuttgart geboren, studierte Ethnologie (MA) und arbeitete als Dokumentarfilmerin und Journalistin. Sie lebt in Hamburg / Deutschland. www.felsfilm.de
Themen in »Changing Times«
Gambian Culture Bakary Sidibe West African culture West African History Oral history Griots Jali Joking relationship Biography Mandinka culture Mandinka history Senegambian extended families Senegambian Culture and history Marabout Manding Class-System