As part of our ongoing work on how African religious and spiritual practices challenge various elements of the status quo, we are pleased to post this YouTube video made by CIHA friend Chérif Keïta on the Mande hunter world, its female spirits, its role as a regional unifying factor in pre-colonial West Africa, and its ongoing power. For Dr. Keïta, “the flurry of destabilizing activity of various Jihadist movements in West Africa motivated my desire to show another side of the spiritual landscape in the region.”
For other posts by Dr. Keïta, see My Two Decades With a Camera In The Bush of Spirits and A Zulu Sun in the Heart of America: John Langalibalele Dube. For posts written about Dr. Keïta, see “Violence on Land, Violence Through Women’s Bodies: Evoking John Langalibalele Dube’s Voice in Contemporary Debates” and In the Bush of Spirits: Discussion of Prof. Keita’s Dube Memorial Lecture.
