Conversion to Islam: Military recruitment and generational conflict in a Sereer-Safèn village (Bandia), 1920-38

Journal of African History

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-94

  Searing, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion; First World War; Islam; Military recruitment; Senegal

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; ISLAMISM; MINORITY GROUP; RELIGION;

SENEGAL;

EID: 0038670381     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0021853702008174     Document Type: Article

References (20)

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4. see James F. Searing, '"No kings, no lords, no slaves" : ethnicity and religion among the Sereer-Safèn of western Bawol, 1700-1914', Journal of African History, 43 (2002), 407-30.
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