Are any of the people that arrive in that time through business activities Mande?
R.S.: In my research, I really did not run across people from those communities, again in southern Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Guinea, who had arrived in the 1980s. Everyone I knew arrived in the 90s. B.E.: But can we say that the activity of that earlier migration at least creates a business context, a doorway through which later Mande emigrants would pass? R.S.: Absolutely. There is certainly a foundation that is established economically. And it’s not just the Murids either. You have Hausa traders. I’m looking specifically at the space of Francophone West Africa, but you have an emergent West African economy that develops in the 80s, and provides a very solid foundation for people from other parts of the region to establish themselves. You have areas that are strongly marked by the West African presence. Take the example of Little Senegal on 116th St, where you have Murid Islamic centers and mosques, you have Senegalese food. But increasingly over the years, you also hav
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