Alinesitoué Diatta: Rebel Leader or Colonial Scapegoat?: Conflicting French Narratives on a Senegalese Prophetess, 1942–1943.
When a young woman named Alinesitoué Diatta received her first vision from the Jola divine entity, Emitai, Senegal was in the midst of the Second World War. Its colonial government was under Vichy French rule, West African men were forcibly conscripted into the French military, and their crops fille...
| Publicado en: | French Historical Studies Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 481 - 517 |
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Aug2024
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