The argument of this panel is that our knowledge on Africa are anchored in a representation which occulte mobility.Proposing an approach based on historigraphical surveys dealing with african migrations, this panel propose to develop epistemological views on classical africanists knowledge. Through the topic of migration, we propose to explore how stereotypes, categories linked or not with the colonial library, such as "terroir", "household" and so should reshape our representation of Africa.
When claims for autochthony are linked with migration.
Revisiting the ethnography of the Boulgou province ( Burkina Faso ) through the
historicity of the mobility.
