Le 17 avril 1946 est la date la plus importante chez les thiantâkones, ces hommes universels qui se définissent comme des serviteurs reconnaissants. L’initiation spirituelle, quand elle est orthodoxe, se fait par l’intermédiaire d’un Guide authentique et dans des conditions régulières. La fondation du Mouridisme au 19e siècle, par Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké, avait pour but de revivifier cette tradition dans l’Islam. Son fils et héritier spirituel, Serigne Saliou, perpétua la voie en la co...

Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people’s perception of and their ability to cope with the pandemic situation globally through music. Based on int...

This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety of cultural representations—visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual—created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public and shared...

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba MBacké was a leader of his time, championing non-violence and pioneering decolonization through the Murid project, which was a Sufi religious dimension and a deconstruction of colonial and local (psychic) alienation. Cheikh M. Ndiaye's, Ahmadu Bamba and Decolonization: The Power of Faith and Self-Reliance, examines Bamba's legacy as a man of unshakable faith, a humanist, a socio-cultural reformer,...