Segu
Using specific illustrations from Maryse Conde's novel Segu, this is an essay that discusses how the coming of Islam to Bambar society affected that people's traditional, political, social and economic practices as well as challenging the Bambaras' religious beliefs.Before the arrival of Islam, Segu and its people, the Bambaras, were extremely different world from what they became under Islamic rule. The Bambaras were proud people with a long history in farming, and the wealthy ones worked with hundreds of slaves and planted millet, cotton and fonio (p. 4). Their currency was cowrie shells and gold dust, and they hadn't even heard of money, which came with the white man. With the coming of Islam, manufactured goods from Europe and North Africa were making their way into Bambara households (p. 324). Conde described it: "It was not unusual to see well-born young men in boots bought from some trader. Many families had silver dishes in their huts, and the Mansa proudly displayed to his friends a service of fine Chinese porcelain that he never actually used." Fetishists, they turned to all manner of objects and all manner of gods to assure their good fortune. For example, Dousika used a tooth twig to increase his
Much of life was extremely magical, as evidenced in the way Tiekoro reacted when he first saw a man write with a pencil. Bibliography Marys,Condee. If you fought behind a ruler, it was simply to get more wives, more slaves or more gold. The Curse of Writing: Genealogical Strata of a Disillusion: Orality, Islam-writing, and Identities in the State of Becoming in Maryse Conde's Segou. Islam required them to limit the number of wives. Items that the fetishists held sacred were burned, and people wondered what would happen as the Mansa turned his back on the gods of Segu and insulted the ancestors "What blindness, what folly! After such crimes the name of Segu would disappear off the face of the earth. "There were new houses with their flat roofs and turrets with triangular loopholes.
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