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The Africain "Renaissance" of the Saltigi du Sine in the Senegal
By Thomas Osmond (Donatecarcenter.com-Aix), RAHIA (Researches in Anthropology and History of Africa),
n ° 27 [téléchargeable on the site of the electronic magazine].
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In the Senegal, the emphasising of regional traditional cultural heritages participates in the reconstruction of a national imagination founded on small ethnic fatherlands " . The mobilisations of the ethnicité sereer within state policies answer a double search of regional recognition as part of decentralisation, and of an afrocentrist aura on international plan. By registering in the love-hate field of « Africain Renaissance », this step links transnational organisations implicated in the promotion of religion and of medicine traditional sereer. In this context, the soothsayers and healers saltigi of the ancient kingdom of Sine become faces emblematic and mediatized by the rehabilitation of stocks of négro-Africain civilisation, on ashes of movements panafricanistes and post-modern infatuation New Age for "authentic" occult knowledges . Between these regional ethnocultural arenae and afro-traditionalist ideological mishaps, fan out of modified individual strategies : self-defining reconstructions politicised by the titulature saltigi make a true social and occupational hole inside which rush locally cultural businessmen, endorsing this titulature with its new neo-traditionalist finery, in regional economic contexts marked by a strong recession.
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