Saying Mali with Jean-Paul Colleyn

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The "so-called" and other more serious stories, by Jean-Paul Colleyn and Mingoro Sanogo.

This anthology, produced with Migoro Sanogo, brings together around fifty stories, rumours, hearsay, anecdotes and other gossip heard and collected in Mali between the 1980s and the first decades of the 21st century.e century.

These “so-called” are both little tales about origins and real parables of modern times. They paint a portrait of a Malian society on the move.

Guest :

  • John Paul Colleyn, research anthropologist at the IMAF (Institute of African Worlds). His work mainly focuses on religious practices in Mali, possession cults in Africa, the anthropology of art and visual anthropology.

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