African Miracle, African Mirage. Abou B. Bamba

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СКАЧАТЬ love, companionship, and bighearted encouragements, this book may have not seen the light of the day.

      Many more people helped in other capacities: Julien Brou Kouamé provided timely technical support for the numerous illustrations that dot this work. Ibra Sene and especially Cheick Kaling helped with the research at the Archives Nationales du Sénégal. Monica van Beusekom, Jeanne M. Toungara, Phil Muelhenberg, Greg Mann, Joe Downing, Emelio Betances, Bill Bowman, and Larry Grubbs read various chapters and provided insightful comments. When the manuscript landed at the desk of Ohio University Press, Gill Berchowitz and Jean Allman received it enthusiastically. I thank them, together with the other editors of the New African Histories Series, for the confidence they placed in the project. My appreciation is also extended to the reviewers and copyeditor of the manuscript for helping me clarify murky points and thus improve my overall argument. Last but not least, I thank my cousin Moussa Bamba for hosting me whenever I was doing research in the Greater Washington, DC, area. Along the same line, I acknowledge the generosity of Sindou Soumahoro, Moussa Coulibaly, Marc Papé, and Bertin Kouadio. My final thank-you goes to my family in Ivory Coast: my mom, Mayantié Chérif; and my siblings, Massiami, Amara, Mouandou, Adama, and Yahya. I am indeed grateful to you for the constant support and timely prop-ups you provided so that the project could be finished and not turn out to be a dereke deni kan bah.

       Selected Abbreviations

ARSO	Autorité pour l’Aménagement de la Région du Sud-Ouest
AVB	Autorité pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bandama
BRL	Compagnie (Nationale) du Bas-Rhône Languedoc
BSIE	Budget spécial d’investissement et d’équipement
CAISTAB	Caisse de Stabilisation et de Soutien des Prix des Productions Agricoles
CCCE	Caisse Centrale de Coopération Economique
CCFOM	Caisse Centrale de la France d’Outre-Mer
CENIS	Center for International Studies
CIDT	Compagnie Ivoirienne pour le Développement du Textile
CIRES	Centre Ivoirien de Recherche Economique et Sociale
CRED	Center for Research on Economic Development
D&R	Development and Resources Corporation
DATAR	Délégation pour l’Aménagement du Territoire et de l’Action Régionale
ECA	Economic Cooperation Administration
EDF	Electricité de France
ETV	educational television
Exim Bank	Export-Import Bank [of the United States]
FAC	Fonds d’Aide et de Coopération
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
FEANF	Fédération des Etudiants d’Afrique Noire en France
FIDES	Fonds d’Investissement pour le Développement Economique et Social
ICA	International Cooperation Agency
IFAN	Institut Français d’Afrique Noire
IMF	International Monetary Fund
INAC	Institut National d’Agronomie Tropicale
IRAT	Institut de Recherches Agronomiques Tropicales et des Cultures Vivrières
MSA	Mutual Security Agency
OHE	Office des Habitations Economiques
ORSTOM	Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer
PCF	Parti Communiste Français
PDCI	Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire
RDA	Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
SARA	Section Autonome de Recherche Agronomique
SCET	Société Centrale de l’Aménagement du Territoire
SEDES	Société d’Etudes pour le Développement Economique et Social
SIHCI	Société Immobilière d’Habitation de Côte d’Ivoire
SODEFEL	Société pour le Développement des Fruits et Légumes
SODERIZ	Société pour le Développement de la Riziculture
SODESUCRE	Société pour le Développement des Plantations de Canne à Sucre, l’Industrialisation et la Commercialisation du Sucre
SYNESCI	Syndicat National des Enseignants du Secondaire de Côte d’Ivoire
TVA	Tennessee Valley Authority
UNDP	United Nations Development Program
USAID	United States Agency for International Development

       Introduction

      So before we encounter what was or was not modern we are left with an initial problem of specifying what it is or was that could at any point be regarded traditional. If that is defined, as it has been by some, as involving continuity, repetition and relative lack of choice, we would have to conclude that there had never [. . .] been such a moment or such a place in that extensive West African History for which we have anything like substantiated evidence. That which might appear to be traditional to an uninformed stranger was and is firstly subject to incessant change and it was also the product of generations of imaginative cultural bricoleurs.

      —Richard Rathbone, “West Africa” (2002)

      WHAT COULD BE MORE FITTING in opening a book on (post)colonial modernization in Africa than the reflections of Richard Rathbone, one of the doyens of African studies of our times? Rightly as the British Africanist puts it, there is a rather long tradition of people’s engagement with modernity in the history of West Africa.¹ It would seem even more appropriate to flesh out such a claim in this introductory chapter and show, for instance, the many micropolitics of domestication of the modern in this part of the world that seemingly СКАЧАТЬ