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Jean-Loup Amselle et al., « Littérature orale et idéologie. La geste des Jakite Sabashi du Ganan (Wasolon, Mali). », Cahiers d'Études africaines, ID : 10.3406/cea.1979.2873
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J.-L. Amselle, Z. Dunbya, A. Kuyate & M. Tabure—Oral Literature and Ideology. The Saga ofthe Jakite Sabashi of Gana (Wasulo, Mali). A transcription, with French translation and comment, of the saga of the Jakite Sabashi, the chiefly lineage of Gana. The text is considered both as a literary work and as an ideological production, the latter aspect being the more important. The narrative uses a classical form to express the way in which Malinke-Bambara States and chiefdoms conceive the acquisition and maintenance of power. Rather than attempting a restitution of Gana's history, griot Amadu Kuyate unrolls the chain of symbolic practices associated with power: geomancy, magies, secret, treason, women. His portraying of the two main characters, Saba and Farabalay, as well as of Samori, is a description of the bipolar basis of power in Mali, i.e. paganism and Islam. His narrative is also meaningful as regards the position of dispossessed aristocracies in today's Malian political System, [pp. 381-433]