| Titre | Les Kroumen et le développement du Sud-Ouest ivoirien | |
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| Auteur | Christine Behrens | |
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Revue | Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer |
| Numéro | vol. 35, no 140, octobre-décembre 1982 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 27 pages | |
| Résumé |
qui grâce à la présence de routes et d'un port, donc de débouchés, semble pouvoir prendre un certain essor auprès des anciens navigateurs, encore ancrés dans leur mentalité traditionnelle et inquiets de leur avenir. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Résumé anglais |
The Krumen and the development of the South-West Ivory Coast.
This article is the logical follow-up to a doctoral thesis submitted in 1972 comprising a historical and geographic study of the Krumen of the coast of West Africa, particularly those of the Ivory Coast. For generations the Krumen signed on as specialised deck-hands and dockers on European boats trading along the West African Coast.
Returning to the south-west Ivory Coast after an absence of 11 years, the author sets out the position in which the Krumen now find themselves -witnesses of the progressive disappearance of their traditional source of employment without really having a clear idea of what they should turn to as an alternative.
The reduced opportunities for obtaining work on ships, and the changes in the way this employment operates, which were already noted in 1969 had, in fact, considerably been aggravated by 1980 : the effects of growing unemployment, particularly on the methods of recruitment, are analysed here and proposals put forward which seek to eliminate their abuses.
Taking into account the anormous development the region has experienced under the aegis of ARSO (the Regional Planning Authority for the South-West) the author spells out the direct consequences of «Operation San Pedro» on the local populations which had been orientated essentially towards maritime employment.
Among the possibilities for new employment available to the Krumen the maritime activities of the new port, albeit the most closely related to their traditional skills, benefit them only to a limited extent. It is above all a small-scale peasant farming which, thanks to the existence of roads and a port -and hence, markets-seems likely to establish a certain appeal among a former maritime people whose traditional attitudes are still deeply embedded and who are worried about their future. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/caoum_0373-5834_1982_num_35_140_3036 |
