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Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara
L’œuvre d’un historien guinéen à l’époque coloniale / The Work of a Guinean Historian during the Colonial Period
Series: - African Sources for African History, Volume: 17
Essai d’histoire locale fut écrit par un acteur-clé de l’historiographie de l’Afrique de l’Ouest pourtant encore méconnu: Djiguiba Camara. Rédigé en 1955, ce texte est centré sur l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, avec une attention particulière portée sur l’empire de Samori Touré et la résistance anticoloniale.
Ce texte, Essai d’histoire locale, illustre la fabrique de l’histoire locale par un intermédiaire colonial guinéen et un intellectuel, à partir du point de vue spécifique de la famille Camara, qui fut engagée dans les armées de Samori. Ce texte n’a été connu que parce qu’il est devenu l’une des sources majeures de l’historien français Yves Person pour sa monumentale thèse Samori, Une Révolution Dyula (1968-1975). Avec l'édition annotée de cette source primaire, Essai d’histoire locale de Djiguiba Camara devient enfin accessible à un lectorat plus vaste. Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet ont démontré grâce à cette publication que Essai d’histoire locale est une source essentielle pour la compréhension de l’histoire de la Guinée et de la fabrique de l’historiographie en générale, et du travail d’Yves Person en particulier.
Although a key figure in West African historiography, Djiguiba Camara has remained almost completely unknown. Completed in 1955, Essay on Local History focuses on the history of Upper Guinea with an emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and anticolonial resistance.
Everywhere in Essay on Local History we can see not only the highly developed craft of the local historical writing of a Guinean colonial intermediary and scholar, but the view he gave is from the particular perspective of the Camara family, who had served in Samori’s armies. Djiguiba Camara’s own work had been known only by reputation as a source for the monumental thee-volume Samori – Une Révolution Dyula (1968-1975) by the French historian Yves Person. Now however, in this fully annotated text edition, Djiguiba Camara’s Essay on Local History becomes available to a wider audience for the first time. Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet have demonstrated through this publication that Essay on Local History is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand both the history of Guinea and the making of historiography in general, but also Yves Person’s modus operandi.
Ce texte, Essai d’histoire locale, illustre la fabrique de l’histoire locale par un intermédiaire colonial guinéen et un intellectuel, à partir du point de vue spécifique de la famille Camara, qui fut engagée dans les armées de Samori. Ce texte n’a été connu que parce qu’il est devenu l’une des sources majeures de l’historien français Yves Person pour sa monumentale thèse Samori, Une Révolution Dyula (1968-1975). Avec l'édition annotée de cette source primaire, Essai d’histoire locale de Djiguiba Camara devient enfin accessible à un lectorat plus vaste. Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet ont démontré grâce à cette publication que Essai d’histoire locale est une source essentielle pour la compréhension de l’histoire de la Guinée et de la fabrique de l’historiographie en générale, et du travail d’Yves Person en particulier.
Although a key figure in West African historiography, Djiguiba Camara has remained almost completely unknown. Completed in 1955, Essay on Local History focuses on the history of Upper Guinea with an emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and anticolonial resistance.
Everywhere in Essay on Local History we can see not only the highly developed craft of the local historical writing of a Guinean colonial intermediary and scholar, but the view he gave is from the particular perspective of the Camara family, who had served in Samori’s armies. Djiguiba Camara’s own work had been known only by reputation as a source for the monumental thee-volume Samori – Une Révolution Dyula (1968-1975) by the French historian Yves Person. Now however, in this fully annotated text edition, Djiguiba Camara’s Essay on Local History becomes available to a wider audience for the first time. Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet have demonstrated through this publication that Essay on Local History is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand both the history of Guinea and the making of historiography in general, but also Yves Person’s modus operandi.
Elara Bertho, Ph.D. (Littératures Comparées) est chargée de recherches au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), à Bordeaux, Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM).
Marie Rodet, Ph.D. (African Studies) est Senior Lecturer en Histoire africaine à la School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Elara Bertho, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), is a Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Bordeaux, Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM).
Marie Rodet, Ph.D. (African Studies) is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS, University of London.
Marie Rodet, Ph.D. (African Studies) est Senior Lecturer en Histoire africaine à la School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Elara Bertho, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), is a Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Bordeaux, Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM).
Marie Rodet, Ph.D. (African Studies) is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS, University of London.
[...] 'Camara stands alongside powerful thinkers such as Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, and Boubou Hama in describing the uniqueness and complexity of sociopolitical thought in West Africa. Bertho and Rodet have done a great service in providing this material to readers at the undergraduate, graduate, or scholarly levels. The volume, well-produced and edited by the Brill team and highly accessible in its bilingual form, will yield years of further insights into the place of Islamic genealogical, juridical, and political connections among West African groups previously thought of as largely animist, the role of slavery and violence in postcolonial West African societies prior to full-scale French arrival, and local processes of intellectual production'.[...]
Douglas W. Leonard, United States Air Force Academy, in Journal of West African History, Volume 8.1, (2022), pp. 176-178
Douglas W. Leonard, United States Air Force Academy, in Journal of West African History, Volume 8.1, (2022), pp. 176-178
Editors’ Introduction
Remerciements
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations / Table des illustrations
Note sur la transcription
Prélude : enquête autour d’ un tapuscrit retrouvé
Elara Bertho
Sur les traces de Djiguiba Camara : introduction au tapuscrit “Essai d’ histoire locale”
Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet
A Note on Transcription
Foreword : Investigating a Found Typescript
Elara Bertho
In the Footsteps of Djiguiba Camara: An Introduction to the Typescript of “Essai d’ histoire locale”
Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet
Bibliographie
Index des auteurs
Remerciements
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations / Table des illustrations
Introduction – version française
Note sur la transcription
Prélude : enquête autour d’ un tapuscrit retrouvé
Elara Bertho
Sur les traces de Djiguiba Camara : introduction au tapuscrit “Essai d’ histoire locale”
Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet
“Essai d’ histoire locale” – version française
Introduction – English Version
A Note on Transcription
Foreword : Investigating a Found Typescript
Elara Bertho
In the Footsteps of Djiguiba Camara: An Introduction to the Typescript of “Essai d’ histoire locale”
Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet
“Essai d’ histoire locale” – English Version
Bibliographie
Index des auteurs
Toute personne intéressée par l’histoire africaine, l’histoire de la Guinée à l’époque coloniale, les mouvements de résistance anticoloniale, et plus généralement toute personne intéressée par la production du savoir local historique en Afrique, et l’historiographie de l’histoire coloniale française
All interested in African history, the history of Guinea under colonial rule, anticolonial resistance, and anyone concerned with local historical knowledge production in Africa, historiography of French colonial history
All interested in African history, the history of Guinea under colonial rule, anticolonial resistance, and anyone concerned with local historical knowledge production in Africa, historiography of French colonial history