West African Challenge to Empire

Mahir Şaul is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War. Patrick Royer is Adjunct Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut. He is co-author of West African Challenge to Empire, which was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Society, and author of La guerre en miroir, conquête et pacification au Soudan Occidental [War, Conquest, and Pacification in Western Sudan] (2019), which received the Robert Cornevin Prize from the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer in Paris.

Introduction - The Muhun in the nineteenth century - The Muslim houses of the Muhun & the beginnings of French occupation - An incomplete colonial occupation - The call to arms - The first victories of the anti-colonial party - The Molard column in the cercle of Dedougou: four months of devastation - The war in the cercle of Bobo-Dioulasso - Between the Muhun & Bani rivers: the cercles of Koutiala, San & Bandiagara - The Gurunsi - Conclusion - Appendices - Glossary of colonial terms - Sources & Bibliography