Genealogical manipulation and social identity in Sansanne Mango, northern Togo: an imām-list and the Qasīda of ar-Ra'īs Bādās
- Title
- Genealogical manipulation and social identity in Sansanne Mango, northern Togo: an imām-list and the Qasīda of ar-Ra'īs Bādās
- Abstract
- Among the principle inhabitants of the northern Togolese town of Sansanne Mango, the Anufom, only the members of one of the forty named lineages possess a ‘genealogy’ which purports to extend to ancestors born significantly prior to 1764, the year in which the forbears of the Anufom overthrew the Gurma inhabitants of the village of Kondjoko and established their military camp on its site. This aberrant genealogy of the lineage Kambaya is also of interest in that it consists, in its greater part, of two written documents, the only example of the use of Arabic script for this purpose that has been discovered in northern Togo.
- volume
- 45
- issue
- 1
- page start
- 118
- page end
- 137
- Date
- 1982
- Language
- Anglais
- Type
- Article de revue
- Spatial Coverage
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Togo