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BURKINA FASO 141 Chouli, Lila

L'insurrection populaire et la transition au Burkina Faso / Lila Chouli - In: Review of African Political Economy: (2015), vol. 42, no. 143, p. 148-155.

ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso; rebellions; protest; political change; political conditions.

À la fin d'octobre 2014, l'Afrique était le "théâtre" d'un soulèvement populaire, particulier par sa fulgurance : en deux jours, les masses burkinabè ont vidé le palais présidentiel de son occupant, dépassant le mot d'ordre lancé par l'opposition politique ainsi que des organisations de la société civile. Qu'en est-il de l'après octobre 2014? Après un très bref rappel de la dynamique des luttes au Burkina Faso, l'auteur présente à grands traits l'organisation de la transition post-octobre dans ses rapports à l'esprit du soulèvement populaire, dans sa pluralité, pouvant même être contradictoire...?. Bibliogr., notes, réf., rés. en français et en anglais. For an English translation of this briefing see 'Review of African Political Economy' vol. 42, no. 144, p. 325-333. [Résumé extrait de la revue]

142 Engels, Bettina

Different means of protest, same causes : popular struggles in Burkina Faso / Bettina Engels - In: Review of African Political Economy: (2015), vol. 42, no. 143, p. 92-106.

ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso; rebellions; protest; food prices; action groups; trade unions.

The article examines the relationship of riots to more organised and sustained protests by trade unions and other established oppositional organisations. It focuses on protests related to the 2007-2008 food and fuel price crisis. In a case study on Burkina Faso, actors, means and achievements of the popular struggles are analysed. It is argued that protests by the trade unions on the one side and riots on the other relate to one another. Both present struggles by different segments of the popular classes that sometimes use different means but emerge from the same structural causes and address the same problem. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]

143 Kaboré, Edwige Zagré

Le site de Laongo : intérêt touristique et iconographie féminine / Edwige Zagré Kaboré - In:

Revue africaine: (2011), no. 5, p. 55-75 : foto's.

ASC Subject Headings: Burkina Faso; cultural heritage; sculpture; women.

Le site de sculpture de Laongo est un site culturel situé dans un petit village du Burkina Faso à environ 35km au nord-est d'Ouagadougou la capitale. Sa proximité avec la capitale, constitue un attrait touristique important pour le pays. Ce site de sculpture sur granite est

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représente le site de Laongo? Il présente des œuvres sculpturales d'une inspiration variée et dont le thème de la femme occupe une place importante. Cet article analyse l'intérêt de ce site, du point de vue du tourisme, de la formation et de l'importance que les sculpteurs accordent à la femme dans les représentations des œuvres artistiques. Bibliogr., notes, réf., rés. en français (p. 168) et en anglais (p. 169). [Résumé extrait de la revue]

THE GAMBIA 144 Raji, Wumi

Contemporary literature of Africa : Tijan M. Sallah and literary works of The Gambia / ed. by Wumi Raji, Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. - Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, cop. 2014. - X, 268 p. : fig. ; 24 cm - Kora notes: Tijan M. Sallah and the development of Gambian literature, an edited collection of essays principally on the writings of Tijan M. Sallah. - Bibliogr.: p. [247]-255 . - Met index, noten. ISBN 1604978678

ASC Subject Headings: Gambia; literature; poetry; literary criticism.

The first part of this collective volume delves into the background of Gambian literature with a discussion of works by leading Gambian authors, such as Lenrie Peters, Ebou Dibba and Tijan Sallah. The book then turns the focus on Tijan Sallah, exploring his growth and development as a writer and providing critical analyses of his major works. While some of the chapters take the works together in a general thematic and stylistic discussion, others provide an in-depth analysis of specific works. Some of the chapters adopt a linguistic approach; another two locate the works within the trend of ecopoetry, an emerging genre of nature poetry; one explores Sallah's poems of convalescence, pointing out their therapeutic nature; yet another employs the theory of phenomenology in carrying out an investigation of Sallah's poetry in comparison with the works of other major African poets. The final chapter is a detailed interview with Sallah. It sheds light on his life, and shows how his Gambian background influences his writings. Chapters: Introduction (Wumi Raji); Gambian fictions (Stewart Brown); An unusual growth : the development of Tijan M. Sallah's poetry (Tanure Ojaide); Themes and styles in the poetry of Tijan M. Sallah (Pierre Gomez); Rhythm in Tijan Sallah's "Share" : a metrical phonology approach (Demola Jolayemi); Tijan Sallah's Kora land : a stylistic analysis of "The Elders are Gods" (Tunde Ayodabo); The ecopoetics of Tijan M. Sallah : Gambian values and Sufi presence (Victoria Arana); Return to roots : dialectics of cultural development in the poetry of Tijan Sallah (Sylvie Coly); Tijan Sallah's "Sahelian Earth" : Africa's rebirth (Charles Larson); Exile and return : the poetry and fiction of Tijan Sallah (Samuel Garren); African economics as a short story : Tijan Sallah's "The unfortunate choice" (Santayanan Devarajan); Poetry as therapy : Tijan Sallah's "Harrow poems" (Enajite Ojaruega); "Stanley meets Mutesa" : post colonial consciousness and