Bintou Sanankoua | |
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Born | 1943 |
Nationality | Malian |
Occupation(s) | Historian, politician |
Notable work | Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: La Diina du Maasina |
Bintou Sanankoua is a historian from Mali, who is Professor of History at the École Normale Supérieure de Bamako. She specialises in the history of Mali in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has produced a study of the fall of the former president, Modibo Keita.
Brought up as part of the household that the author Amadou Hampâté Bâ was responsible for, Her close connection to the family meant that she was able to access family papers for her work Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: La Diina du Maasina, she also accessed archived held at the Ahmed Baba Centre in Timbuktu. In her work as a historian, she has expanded Bâ's own work on the life of the Dina people in the nineteenth century. She has also pioneered the study of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi. She has worked on the Bayān mā waqaʿa - a text which describes the defeat of the Ḥamdallāhi.
First elected as a member of the National Assembly of Mali in 1997, her candidacy was supported by Coordination des Associations et ONG Féminines du Mali (CAFO). She has also held the role of Regional Coordinator for the Promotion of Women in Mopti. She is a member of the Collectif des Femmes du Mali (Women’s Collective of Mali) .
Selected publications
- Sanankoua, Bintou. Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: La Diina du Maasina. KARTHALA Editions, 1990.
- Sanankoua, Bintou. "Femmes et parlement au Mali." Afrique contemporaine 210.2 (2004): 145-156.
- Sanankoua, Diarah Bintou. "Les écoles “Coraniques” au Mali: problèmes actuels." Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études africaines 19.2 (1985): 359-367.
- Sanankoua, Bintou. "Amadou Hampate Ba: A Testimony." Islamic Africa 1.2 (2010): 143-166.
References
- Laviolette, Adria (March 1996). "Djenné: Picture this - Djenné, il y a cent ans. By Bernard Gardi, Pierre Maas and Geert Mommersteeg. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Press, 1995. Pp. 168. Dfl. 80 (ISBN 90-6832-250-8)". The Journal of African History. 37 (1): 162–163. doi:10.1017/S0021853700035088. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 162478567.
- Collective Mobilisations in Africa / Mobilisations collectives en Afrique: Enough is Enough! / Ça suffit!. BRILL. 2015-06-02. p. 174. ISBN 978-90-04-30000-2.
- Sanankoua, Bintou; Sidibe, Samuel (2003). "Malian Cuisine" (PDF). Smithsonian Folklife (29).
- ^ MALI: HISTÓRIA, ETNOLOGIA E POLÍTICA (Government of Brazil)
- Lecocq, Baz; Mann, Gregory (2003). "Introduction Writing Histories of an African Post-Colony: Modibo Keita's Mali, 1960-1968". Mande Studies. 5: 1–7. ISSN 1536-5506. JSTOR 44078819.
- ^ Austen, Ralph A.; Soares, Benjamin F. (2010). "AMADOU HAMPÂTÉ BÂ'S LIFE AND WORK RECONSIDERED: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES". Islamic Africa. 1 (2): 133–142. ISSN 2333-262X. JSTOR 42636154.
- Salvaing, Bernard (1991). "Sanankoua (Bintou) : Un Empire peul au XIXe siècle : la Diina du Maasina". Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire. 78 (292): 429–430.
- "CALL FOR PAPERS - The "Caliphate of Hamdallahi": A History from Within | Tombouctou Manuscripts Project". www.tombouctoumanuscripts.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- Syed, Amir (2021). "Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi". The Journal of African History. 62 (3): 358–376. doi:10.1017/S0021853721000505. ISSN 0021-8537. S2CID 239672343.
- Wing, S. (2008-04-28). Constructing Democracy in Transitioning Societies of Africa: Constitutionalism and Deliberation in Mali. Springer. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-230-61207-5.
- Naples, Nancy A.; Desai, Manisha (2004-04-16). Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Global Politics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95517-5.
- "Democracy and political change in Sub-Saharan Africa". Choice Reviews Online. 33 (11): 33–6539-33-6539. 1996-07-01. doi:10.5860/choice.33-6539. ISSN 0009-4978.
- Women, Endogenous Governance and Conflict Prevention in West Africa Workshop organised by Sahel and West Africa Club/OECD Niamey (Niger), 26 to 28 April 2006
- Sanankoua, Bintou (1990-01-01). Un empire peul au XIXe siècle: la Diina du Maasina (in French). KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-86537-234-8.
- Sanankoua, Diarah Bintou (1985-01-01). "Les écoles "Coraniques" au Mali: problèmes actuels". Revue canadienne des études africaines. 19 (2): 359–367. doi:10.1080/00083968.1985.10804118. ISSN 0008-3968.
- Sanankoua, Bintou (2010-06-03). "AMADOU HAMPÂTÉ BÂ: A TESTIMONY". Islamic Africa. 1 (2): 143–166. doi:10.1163/21540993-90000015. ISSN 2154-0993.
External links
- Short history of Mali's colonisation
- Intervention de l'historienne Bintou Sanankoua au Forum de Bamako
- Photograph of Bintou Sanankoua on Flickr