A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal

by Mark W. Deets

A historiographical analysis of human geography and a social history of nationalist separatism and cultural identity in southern Senegal. This book is a spatial history of the conflict in Casamance, the portion of Senegal located south of The Gambia. Mark W. Deets traces the origins of the conflict back to the start of the colonial period in a select group of contested spaces and places where the seeds of nationalism and separatism took root...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082142601X
• ISBN13: 9780821426012
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"