TY - BOOK AU - Bouna Timera,Mamadou TI - Senegalese Identity through School Geography, from Independence to the 1990s PY - 2009///. N1 - 64 N2 - Shortly after independence, school geography was used in Senegal to meet the demands of nation-building. This was not an unprecedented role, since nation-building was a key function of the model that produced this geography and to which it refers. However, African revival introduced a new dimension, fueled by various identity-based polarities. School geography was therefore used in a unique way, with teaching material for the creation of a new man: an African whose African culture and national history, groundnut monocrop, and openness to other cultures defined him as Senegalese UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-espace-geographique-2009-3-page-233?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -