Author(s)

Issa Gadjigo

Arts, Culture, Civilization Doctoral School (ARCIV), Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal.

In this paper, the author aims to study the causes of the social mutations of the Soninke society form the colonial epoch to the present day. In fact, we have noticed that the western colonization which symbolizes a huge cultural aggression against the African societies in general, has brought about big transformations in Africa in general and in Soninkara particularly. Since this historical event, the society of the Soninke people has been undergoing a huge cultural influence of the whites through the capitalist system, the French school and the modernism. The traditions and the way of life of the Soninke people keep changing under a bad contamination of the modern Western civilization characterized especially by liberty (freedom of speech and opinion) and a so-called equality between the individuals. And things have started falling apart in Soninkara hence the social conflicts and the loss of good values.

Social, Mutations, Soninke, Society, Western, Colonization, Cultural Aggression, African, Transformations, Soninkara, Historical, Event, Influence, Whites, Capital, System, French, School, Modernism, Traditions, Way, Life, Contamination, Modern, Civilization, Liberty, Equality, Individuals, Conflict, Loss, Value

Gadjigo, I. (2023) The Soninke Civilization: The Social Mutations of the Contemporary Soninkara. Advances in Anthropology, 13, 171-189. doi: 10.4236/aa.2023.132010.