West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in
the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16. It was the largest challenge
that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire,
and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in
Africa. How such a movement could be organized in the face of
European technological superiority despite the fact that this
region is generally described as having consisted of rival villages
and descent groups is a puzzle. In this jointly written book the
two authors provide a detailed political and military history of
this event based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork.
Using cultural and sociological analysis, it probes the origins of
the movement, its internal organization, its strategy, and the
reasons for its initial success and why it spread. In 2001 the
authors of West African Challenge to Empire were awarded the Amaury
Talbot Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological
Institute.
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