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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...

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Published in:French Historical Studies Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 481 - 517
Main Author: O'Donoghue, Meghan
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Aug2024
Subjects:
Narratives
Senegalese
Women prophets
World War II
Anxiety
Scholars
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