Edited by Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Bouba Touré

2017

Publisher

Archive Books

Contributors

Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye, Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Romain Tiquet, Raphaël Grisey, Tobias Hering, Olivier Marboeuf, Bouba Touré, Sidney Sokhona, Ousmane Sinaré, Siré Soumaré, Bathily Bakhoré, Ladji Niangané, Mady Niakhaté, Goundo Kamissokho Niakhaté, Bouba Touré and Karinne Parrot.

Sowing Somankidi Coura. A Generative Archive is a long-term research endeavor by Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Bouba Touré around the permacultures and archives of Somankidi Coura, a self-organized cooperative along the Senegal river founded by a group of former African migrant workers and activists in France in 1977 after the Sahel drought of 1973.

The book assembles texts, voices, images, takes, retakes and research around the Pan-African history of the cooperative of Somankidi Coura, the liberation struggles of migrant workers and farmers in France and West Africa. It enables thinking a politics of decolonisation for agriculture, migration, care, soil and the archive. Sowing Somankidi Coura. A Generative Archive offers new perspectives on the analyses and modes of action of ACTAF (Cultural Association of African Workers in France), and the permacultures of the Cooperative of Somankidi Coura, for speculative permacultures to germinate.