Outputs (5)

Bouillagui: A Free Village (2020)
Digital Artefact
Rodet, M., & Maximin, C. Bouillagui: A Free Village. [Video]

In 2008 I started an oral history project on slavery in the Kayes region. It is how I heard of ‘rebel villages’ for the first time, which led me onto the tracks of the village of Bouillagui. Bouillagui is a Soninke village of Western Mali. It is loca... Read More about Bouillagui: A Free Village.

Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara (2020)
Book
Bertho, E., & Rodet, M. (2020). Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004424876

Although a key figure in West African historiography, Djiguiba Camara has remained almost completely unknown. Completed in 1955, Essay on Local History focuses on the history of Upper Guinea with an emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and anticolo... Read More about Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara.

Slavery and Film (2020)
Other
(2020). Slavery and Film. Leiden

Documenting the History of Slavery on Film in Kayes, Mali (2020)
Journal Article
Rodet, M. (2020). Documenting the History of Slavery on Film in Kayes, Mali. Journal of global slavery, 5(1), 89-104. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00501009

In 2010 I filmed descendants of formerly enslaved populations in Kayes narrating the history of their ancestors and the realities of internal slavery in West Africa. The result was a 23-minute documentary film entitled “The Diambourou: Slavery and Em... Read More about Documenting the History of Slavery on Film in Kayes, Mali.

African Slavery in Documentary Films. Why Now? (2020)
Journal Article
Rodet, M., & Declich, F. (2020). African Slavery in Documentary Films. Why Now?. Journal of global slavery, 5(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00501008