Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965, (Michigan State University, Feb, 2018)
Professor Saho is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century West Africa (religious, legal, cultural, and social, women and gender history). His book, Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965, (Michigan State University, Feb, 2018),explores the place of women in the formation of colonial Bathurst, the evolution of women’s understanding of the importance of law in securing their rights, as well as the ways in which women utilized the new qadi court system to fight for growing rights within the domestic sphere. He is currently working on a second book titled, Ritualizing the Womb: The Peril of Childless (Kañeleng) Women in The Gambia.It investigates how voluntary associations of childless women shape perceptions of infertility in modern Gambia and how kañelengcounter the burden of childlessness and redefine the cultural construction of womanhood.
Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965, (Michigan State University, Feb, 2018)
Saho, B. (2016). “Challenges and Constraints: Forced Marriage as a Form ‘Traditional’ Practice in the Gambia.” In Marriage By Force?: Contestation Over Consent and Coercion in Africa, 178 – 198, edited by Annie Buntung, Benjamin N. Lawrence and Richard Roberts. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016.
Saho, B. (2016). “Djibouti.” In Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, 360 – 373, edited by Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques. California: ABC-Clio.
Saho, B. (2014). “Ritualizing and Domesticating Space: Kaneleng Women Coping with Childlessness in the Gambia,” Mande Studies Journal, 14, 12: 99 - 126
Saho, B. (2011). “Islam and Personhood in the Senegambia: Life and Times of Seringe Mass Kah, 1827 – 1936.” African Studies Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 4
Saho, B. (2010). Islam and Personhood in the Senegambia: Life and Times of Seringe Mass Kah, 1827 – 1936. Mangroves Publishers, Banjul, The Gambia.
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