Sowing Somankidi Coura
Subtitle: a generative archive
By: edited by Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Bouba Touré
Publisher: Archive Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9783943620672
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Somankidi Coura; History; Decolonization; Migrant labor; Labor; Foreign relations
Other titles: Generative archive
Description: Sowing Somankidi Coura. A Generative Archive is a long-term research endeavor initiated by Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Bouba Touré. The project revolves around the permacultures and archives of Somankidi Coura, a self-organized cooperative along the Senegal river. The cooperative was founded in 1977 by a group of former African migrant workers and activists in France after the Sahel drought of 1973. The book assembles texts, voices, images, takes, retakes and research around the Pan-African history of the cooperative of Somankidi Coura, the liberation struggles of migrant workers and farmers in France and West Africa. It enables thinking a politics of decolonisation for agriculture, migration, care, soil and the archive. Sowing Somankidi Coura. A Generative Archive offers new perspectives on the analyses and modes of action of ACTAF (Cultural Association of African Workers in France), and the permacultures of the Cooperative of Somankidi Coura, for speculative permacultures to germinate
Notes: Sowing Somankidi Coura presents a series of interviews with Bakhoré Bathily, Goundo Kamissokho Niakhaté, Mady Koïta Niakhaté, Ladji Niangané, Ousmane Sinaré, Siré Soumaré and Bouba Touré, the cooperative's founders, a large selection of Bouba Touré's photo archive, and various contributions from Raphaël Grisey, Tobias Hering, Olivier Marboeuf, Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye et Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Karinne Parrot, Romain Tiquet, Kaddù Yaraax and Sidney Sokhona.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Raphael Grisey; title: Somankidi Coura, 1977-1980 / photographs by Bouba Toure; title: Immigration : what is the solution? / Cultural Association of African Workers in France (ACTAF); title: Interviews / Bouba Toure; title: Figuring fallow time, part one / Raphael Grisey; title: Interview / Ousmane Sinare; title: Plantations and cooperatives : the colonial coercion economy and postcolonial developmentalist agrarianism / Romain Tiquet; title: Somankidi Coura, 1977-1980 / photographs by Bouba Toure; title: Things and their proper places : notes on the photography of Bouba Toure / Tobias Hering; title: Interview / Ladji Niangane; title: The politicization and visibility of West African immigrants in France in the 1970s : the activist trajectories of ACTAF and Revolution Afrique / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye and Jean-Phillipe Dedieu; title: Somankidi Coura, 1977-1980 / photographs by Bouba Toure; title: Interview / Bakhore Bathily; title: Interview with Sidney Sokhona in Cahiers du cinema, no. 285, February 1978. (Safrana); title: Sideny Sokhona interviewed by Chatherine Ruelle and Guy Henebelle in CinemAction, no. 8, 1979; title: TRAANA ; a theatre script / Bouba Toure; title: Traana / adapted by Kaddu Yaraax and Raphael Grisey; title: Our lives and struggles in France / photographs by Bouba Toure; title: Discussion at Khiasman Art Centre, April 8, 2014 / Raphael Grisey, Bouba Toure, Olivier Marboeuf, Tobias Hering and Karinne Parrot; title: Our lives and struggles in France / Bouba Toure; title: Interview / Sire Soumare; title: Interview / Mady Koita Niakhate; title: Since I don't want to die, I'm walking with time / Olivier Marboeuf; title: Interview / Goundo Kamissokho Niakhate; title: Discussion : Goundo Kamissokho Niakhate and Mdy Niakhate; title: Figuring fallow time, part two / Raphael Grisey.