Special Feature: Translating Agriculture: Anglophone Scholarship on West Africa in French / Dossier : Traduire l’agriculture : recherches anglophones en français sur l’Afrique de l’Ouest.

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Résumé

One of the goals of the Mande Studies journal is to operate as a key crossroads or
intersection for Anglophone and Francophone scholarship on West Africa, two
worlds that sometimes co-exist as ships passing in the night. Building on this
goal, this special feature offers French versions of work originally published in
English that reflect thinking and concepts from the Anglo-American academy
on critical agrarian studies.
The first article of this special feature,“La colonisation intellectuelle de
l’agriculture ouest-africaine et la perspective d’un avenir plus décolonial :
l’expérience agroécologique au Mali” [The intellectual colonization of
West African agriculture and the prospect of a more decolonial future: the
agroecological experience in Mali] draws heavily from two chapters of Moseley’s
2024 book, Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need
for Radical Transformation. The article’s conclusions capitalize on some 30 years
of research conducted by geographer William Moseley in Mali and reflect
a growing concern among critical development scholars that conventional
approaches to agricultural development are inherently Eurocentric and do not
help African countries address growing food insecurity. The article benefited
from comments received by the author at the Conference on Mande Studies in
Bamako in 2024.
Gabin Korbéogo and Jessie Luna wrote the second article of this
special feature. They met in 2016, when Dr. Luna was hosted by Joseph
Ki-Zerbo University’s Local Initiatives Research Group for her doctoral
research on the cotton sector in Burkina Faso. Since then, an intellectual

Mots-clés

key crossroads