Conflicts of Colonialism

Based around the life of Mademba Sèye, an African born in the colonial town of Saint Louis du Sénégal in 1852, who transformed himself with the help of his French patrons from a telegraph clerk into an African king, this book examines Mademba''s life and career to reveal how colonialism in French West Africa was articulated differently at different times and how Mademba survived these changes by p...