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1970s Drought, State Crisis, and Opportunities for Transnational River Development in the Senegal Basin

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Abstract

During the early 1970s, the Sahel suffered from drought and famine. Previous research has emphasized how these factors weakened West African states. The drought, however, provided an opportunity for a transnational river organization in the Senegal River basin (the OMVS) to obtain financing for an integrated development program. Wall shows how the OMVS leveraged concern about famine to obtain funding. She uses digital text analysis to demonstrate institutional priorities shifting to focus on agriculture. This combination of document analysis with digital methods demonstrates how famine strengthened a multi-state organization, requiring a revision of how this event affected African political capacity.

Résumé

Résumé

Au début des années 1970, le Sahel a été touché par une sécheresse historique. Les recherches se sont jusqu’ alors concentrées sur l’affaiblissement des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest résultant de cette sécheresse. Cette sécheresse a cependant été l’occasion pour une organisation fluviale transnationale (l’O.M.V.S.) d’obtenir un financement pour un programme de développement intégré dans le bassin versant du fleuve Sénégal. Wall montre comment l’O.M.V.S. a su saisir l’inquiétude de la communauté internationale quant à la famine pour obtenir ce financement. Par ailleurs elle utilise des outils numériques d’analyse de texte pour mettre en lumière la mutation des priorités institutionnelles vers l’agriculture. En alliant analyse approfondie des sources et méthodes numériques, notre article retrace l’opportunité que la famine a representé pour une organisation transnationale donnée, invitant à porter un autre regard sur l’impact de cet évènement historique sur sur les capacités d’actions politiques en Afrique de l’ouest.

Resumo

Resumo

No início da década de 1970, o Sahel atravessou um período de seca e de fome. No passado, os estudos centraram-se no modo com estes fatores enfraqueceram os estados da África ocidental. A seca, porém, criou uma oportunidade para que uma organização fluvial transnacional, situada na bacia do Rio Senegal (a OMVS), pudesse obter financiamento para um programa de desenvolvimento integrado. Wall demonstra que a OMVS aproveitou as preocupações com a fome para obter financiamento. A autora recorre à análise digital de texto para revelar que as prioridades institucionais se deslocaram para a agricultura. Através desta combinação de análise documental e de métodos digitais, demonstra que a fome fortaleceu uma organização multinacional, impondo que se reveja o modo como isso afetou a capacidade política africana.

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West AfricaSahelfaminetransnationalismdigital historydevelopment
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African Studies Review , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 776 - 802
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association

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Archives Nationales du Mali, Bamako [ANM]Google Scholar
Archives Nationales du Sénégal, Dakar [ANS]Google Scholar
Organistion Pour la Mise en Valuer du Fleuve Sénégal Centre de Documentation et Archives, Saint Louis, Senegal [OMVS-CDA]Google Scholar
Société de Gestion et de l’Énergie de Manantali, Bamako [SOGEM]Google Scholar
Agnew, C.T, and Chappell, A.. 1999. “Drought in the Sahel.” GeoJournal 48: 299–311.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Allen, David, et al. n.d. “Topic Modeling Official Secrecy.” Columbia History Lab Website. Undated. Accessed May 20, 2019. http://historylab.org/images/presentations/Topic_Modeling_OS.pdf.Google Scholar
Arieff, Alexis. 2009. “Still Standing: Neighborhood Wars and Political Stability in Guinea.” Journal of Modern African Studies 47 (3): 331–48.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bélime, Émile. 1922. “Report on the Development Possibilities Offered by the Senegal River Valley.” OMVS-CDA 31.Google Scholar
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Kasaija, Pa. 2004. “Regional Integration: A Political Federation of the East African Countries?” African Journal of International Affairs 7: 1–2.Google Scholar
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Spirling, Arthur. 2012. “U.S. Treaty Making with American Indians: Institutional Change and Relative Power, 1784–1991.” American Journal of Political Science 56 (1): 84–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sterling, Claire. May 1974. “The Making of the Sub-Saharan Wasteland.” Atlantic Monthly. Google Scholar
Tiffert, Glenn D. 2019. “Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base.” American Historical Review 124 (2): 550–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Webb, James L. A. 1995. Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.Google Scholar
Weldesellassie, K. Isaac. 2011. “IGAD as an International Organization, Its Institutional Development and Shortcomings.” Journal of African Law 55 (1): 1–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilkens, Matthew. 2013. “The Geographic Imagination of Civil War-Era American Fiction.” American Literary History 25 (4): 803–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yansané, Aguibou Y., ed. 1996. Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.Google Scholar
Zarour, Charbel. 1986a. “La Coopération Arabo-Sénégalaise.” Africa Development/Afrique et Dévoloppement 11 (2/3): 261–87.Google Scholar
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Zeng, Ning. 2003. “Drought in the Sahel.” Science 302: 999–1000.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed