Native gold. Gold panning and colonial conquest in West Africa

Signposts
By Hugo Dory-Cros
English

The uses of gold in the West African colonial enterprise have often been studied by historical literature through the simple economic prism. Yet, the yellow metal is primarily the result of ancient operational chains that are culturally and socially embedded, which were strategically exploited by colonial forces during the processes of conquest and “pacification”.

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