TITLE:
The Soninke Civilization: The Social Mutations of the Contemporary Soninkara
AUTHORS:
Issa Gadjigo
KEYWORDS:
Social, Mutations, Soninke, Society, Western, Colonization, Cultural Aggression, African, Transformations, Soninkara, Historical, Event, Influence, Whites, Capital, System, French, School, Modernism, Traditions, Way, Life, Contamination, Modern, Civilization, Liberty, Equality, Individuals, Conflict, Loss, Value
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.13 No.2,
May
23,
2023
ABSTRACT: In this paper, the author aims to study the causes of the social mutations of the
Soninke society form the colonial epoch to the present day. In fact, we have
noticed that the western colonization which symbolizes a huge cultural
aggression against the African societies in general, has brought about big
transformations in Africa in general and in Soninkara particularly. Since this historical event, the society of the Soninke
people has been undergoing a huge cultural influence of the whites through the
capitalist system, the French school and the modernism. The traditions and the
way of life of the Soninke people keep changing under a bad contamination of
the modern Western civilization characterized especially by liberty (freedom of
speech and opinion) and a so-called equality between the individuals. And
things have started falling apart in Soninkara hence the social conflicts and the loss of good values.