La revue malienne _Sankoré_ pourrait être considérée comme reflétant un processus de valorisation des langues et littératures africaines dans le cadre du projet de décolonisation des années 1970. Sankoré – une revue de vulgarisation scientifique avec, entre autres, des sections consacrées aux nouvelles, légendes, proverbes, poèmes, devinettes, est un produit initial de l’Institut Ahmed Baba de Tombouctou et publié au cours de cette décennie avec le soutien de l’Institut des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ISH). À travers des exemplaires récupérés en juin 2024 avec l’aide des archivistes et des stagiaires de l’ISH, on peut retracer les débuts de Sankoré en français, avec de courtes sections traduites en bambara (n° 2, 1973) ou en tamasheq (n° 5, 1974), jusqu’à des numéros entièrement en bambara par exemple en 1976 (n° 9, 1976).
The Malian magazine _Sankoré_ could be viewed as an attempt to valorize African languages and literatures as part of decolonization agenda of the 1970s. Sankoré – a popular science journal with some sections dedicated to short stories, legends, proverbs, poems, riddles, is a product of the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu and was published in the 1970s with the support of the Institut des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ISH). From some of the copies retrieved this June 2024 together with archivists and interns at the ISH, one can trace the beginnings of Sankoré in French, with short sections translated in Bambara (No 2, 1973) or Tamasheq (No 5, 1974), to issues fully in Bambara for example by 1976 (No 9, 1976).
New postdoc to catalogue Khangas
The Khanga/Kanga/Leso is a traditional cotton cloth with mixed designs, colors and messages worn by women along the coastal regions of Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar. The popularization of the Khanga can be traced back to 1887, when the Kaderdina family founded the Hajee Essak Limited company, which pioneered the mass…
Lecture: Flora Losch on West African audiovisual archives
Join us for the next lecture in the ALMEDA seminar series! Flora Losch (EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) will present her research on West African audiovisual archives – past and present. The lecture will be held on Zoom Time and Date: Wednesday 27 November, 13:15-14:45 CEST,…
Popular Cultural Responses to Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Machakos Book Workshop
Between 1–4 October, team member Nicklas Hållén visited Machakos University, where he and Dr. Charles Kebaya ran a second of three planned PhD and MA student workshop on popular cultural production in Kenya. The student participants have been working diligently on six different projects which will be collected in a…
Lecture: Afrikaaps and the Literary Archive, Riaan Oppelt
On Tuesday 15 October, our case-study researcher Riaan Oppelt (Stellenbosch University) gave a lecture on his ALMEDA case-study material. You can watch the lecture here: