USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism

The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular
Cosmopolitanism
Diouf, Mamadou.
Public Culture, Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2000, pp. 679-702

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

Modernity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism are concepts whose
meanings and projects (as manifest in social science literature, as
well as in everyday and journalistic communication), largely overlap
and coincide at the level of procedures and operational modes. African
discussions of these concepts tend to privilege unilateral
assimilation of the civilizing mission of colonialism and the
modernization necessarily defined by the West. For some time, the
latter has been supplemented by Islamic modernity, which is both
modern and cosmopolitan. And while Islamic fundamentalist movements
have attacked, sometimes in a violent manner, these local and unique
forms of Muslim appropriation, postcolonial subjects continue to
pursue their ambivalent and ambiguous projects of constructing
autonomous or subordinate identities while also struggling to
reconcile native temporalities and forms of spirituality with the
temporality of the world at large.

http://mtw160-151.ippl.jhu.edu/journals/public_culture/summary/v012/12.3diouf.html

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