Böcker av Ruth Ginio

Murder, summary execution, and legal scandal in late 19th-century French colonial Senegal are vividly described from the conflicting perspectives of the French colonial administration, the French legal system, local politicians, and activist métis, as well as through the eyes of a young widow pursuing justice against impossible odds. In this book, Ruth Ginio expertly analyses key aspects of French colonial expansion along the Senegal River and the politico-legal machinations and distortions the colonial administration resorted to when confronted with a strong and legitimate legal challenge. The book is a micro-history centred on Ndiereby Bah, a young woman wrongfully widowed, whose dogged pursuit of justice led to harassment, intimidation, and the cynical distortion of French law and political process by an administration determined to assert its narrative. It also offers a fascinating account of how this story has remained and percolated through Senegalese cultural memory, remaining relevant more than a hundred years after these events took place.

Analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. This book shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in FWA.