| Abstrakt: |
Friendship has remained a rather marginal topic in the ethnography and social history of Africa, one which has been studied more in the guise of ritualised joking relationships than of a personal and voluntary chosen bond. By commenting the relationships between Mussa Moloh Baldeh, late sovereign of Fuladu, and his friend and right-hand man Dembo Dansoe, this paper explores the significance of friendship in building up long-lasting connections beside and beyond those established through descent, marriage, enslavement and other forms of negotiated or compulsory relatedness in early 20th century Senegambia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
