Gold in Africa: A blessing or a curse?

Gold in Africa: A blessing or a curse?
No 277, 2024/1 - 408 pages
Pages 7 to 7

Editorial

By Jean du Bois de Gaudusson

Special report - Gold in Africa: A blessing or a curse?

Pages 9 to 28

Introduction - Gold panning in Africa: The blessing/curse dilemma as seen on the ground

By Marc Raffinot
Pages 29 to 51

Creating norms in gold panning: A combination of state attempts at formalization and self-regulation by the sector. A case study of the Vihiga and Kakamega gold panners in western Kenya

By Joseph Bohbot
Pages 53 to 77

Black Guernica on a small gold site in Burkina Faso

By Michèle Cros
Pages 79 to 101

It’s the food chain, everyone takes for himself. The daily economy of small-scale gold mining in a village in Côte d’Ivoire

By Muriel Champy, Anna Dessertine
Pages 103 to 127

The Janus-faced nature of gold panning in Côte d’Ivoire: Between relative prosperity and human insecurity

By Gérard Eddie Marc Guipié
Pages 129 to 147

Reform of the mining sector, supervision of artisanal diggers, and governance of gold panning in the province of Maniema: Challenges, dynamics, and participants

By Gédéon Mulamba Tchomba
Pages 149 to 171

The recomposition of the artisanal mining sector in Cameroon: Controversy and negotiation around access to gold extraction sites in the municipalities of Bétaré-Oya and Batouri

By Merlin Ottou
Pages 173 to 194

Industrial mining and rural development in the Bagassi commune, Burkina Faso

By Taladi Narcisse Yonli, Albert Kini
Pages 195 to 220

(Re)distributive justice around a gold mine in Mali: The search for a compromise between legality and equity

By Armel Brice Adanhounme, Adama Ouayiribé Traoré

Signposts

Pages 221 to 235

Gold mining and gender: (Re)questioning the gendered division of labor on the Tourela gold-panning site (Mali)

By Fatoumata Coulibaly
Pages 237 to 243

Competition and complementarity between agriculture and artisanal gold mining

By Robin Petit-Roulet
Pages 245 to 252

Falémé threatened with death by gold mining

By Pierre Cappelaere, Fatoumata Ndiaye
Pages 253 to 259

Native gold. Gold panning and colonial conquest in West Africa

By Hugo Dory-Cros
Pages 261 to 278

Marie-Joseph Bonnat, the first modern Gold Coast prospector

By Pierre Jacquemot

Interview

Pages 279 to 294

Leveraging mining resources for economic and social development on an intergenerational basis

By interview with Marc Raffinot, Bonnie Campbell

Varia

Pages 295 to 314

Mission: Irrigation: Development actions, agricultural dynamics, and migration practices in the Tahoua region (Niger)

By Martha Populin, Bode Sambo, Ludovic Andres

Column

Pages 315 to 333

Democracy threatened by terrorism in the Sahel states

By Djibrihina Ouedraogo
Pages 335 to 375

The French heritage of “francophone African political science”: The case of Cameroon

By Estelle Etoh Ekwoneng

Reviews

Pages 377 to 378

Vulnérabilité écologique et développement durable au Sahel camerounais

By Paul Ahidjo, Jean-Bernard Véron
Pages 379 to 383

L’individu collectif : Ubuntu au quotidien et en clinique psychologique

By Ari Gounongbé, Samuel Mbadinga
Pages 384 to 389

L’Afrique en communs : tensions, mutations, perspectives

By Stéphanie Leyronas, Benjamin Coriat, Kako Nubukpo, Pierre Jacquemot
Pages 390 to 392

La guerre au Baoulé : une ethnographie historique du fait guerrier, Côte d’Ivoire, XVIIIe-XXe siècles

By Fabio Viti, Jean-Bernard Véron
Pages 393 to 396

Le djihad de la vache : pastoralisme et formation de l’État au Mali

By Giovanni Zanoletti, Ayrton Aubry
Pages 397 to 400

L’Islam rationnel de Souleymane Bachir Diagne

By Alioune Bah, Jean-Pierre Listre
Pages 401 to 403

La saison des pluies : l’Afrique dans le monde

By Stephen Ellis, Yves Gounin
Pages 404 to 405

L’Afrique dans le temps du monde

By Mamadou Diouf, Yves Gounin
Pages 406 to 407

Djibouti. A political History

By Samson A. Bezabeh, Sonia Le Gouriellec