It’s not a joke… whether we look at Yemen, the DRC, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Mali or Niger, it’s only wars and border conflicts. What if joking cousining – a practice found in West and Central Africa which almost forces members of the same family and certain ethnic groups to make fun of each other, insult each other, but without any consequences – what if this practice no longer played its role of preserving great and beautiful alliances?
What if, for example, Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum was the victim of a joking lack of kinship…? I’m probably getting lost, that’s why ESM saw fit to invite Salifou Boubé, teacher at the Political School of Paris and at the Department of Philosophy, Culture and Communication at the University of Niamey who publishes, published by L’Harmattan , The dialectic of belonging and distancing, a paradigmatic example : joking cousinship.
