appendix, 25, 245, 247, 249, 251, 253, 255, 257, 259, 261, 263, 265

Appiah, Kwame, 209

approach, 5, 11, 16–17, 42, 240

Arabic borrowings, 127

Arabs, 127–128, 160

Aram, 185–186, 252

archival documentation, 13

aristocratic family, 83–84

Armes, Roy, 15, 17

arrows, 38, 254

articles, 12, 17–18, 24, 106

articulation, 17, 232, 238

artificiality, 190

artist, 9, 17–19, 21, 23, 74, 108, 131, 238

Ashante, 209

Aspects de la Civilization Africaine, 43

assembly, 115, 136

assiettes, 211

assimilation, 6–7, 33, 131

association, 24, 52, 149, 183, 221

astute, 21

Atlantic, 218, 228

attacks, 20–21

audience, 2, 9–11, 23–24, 57, 66, 71–72, 81, 83, 89, 102, 111, 116, 119, 134, 148, 167, 169, 173, 179, 232, 239–240

aura of immunity, 214

auspices, 17

authenticity, 69, 150, 222

author, 16, 18, 21, 51, 209

authority, 132–133, 136, 139, 156, 170, 172, 175, 192, 203, 216, 233, 257, 259, 266

avenues, 15

baccalaureate, 119, 170, 220, 263

background, 16, 20, 37, 68, 167–168

Bakari, Imruh, 13

baleful, 213

Bamanankan, 130

banknotes, 70, 228

barbaric, 30

Barber, Karin, 213

Barlet, Olivier, 14, 16–17

Barthelemy, 109–110, 147–148, 150, 221, 227, 262

basic decency, 122

bastardized, 96

Bauman, Zygmunt, 209

bedeviled, 194

Belgium, 227

belligerent image, 165

berated, 123

betrayal, 14, 123, 227

Bible, 151

bibliography, 19–20

Biram, 145–146, 151–152, 159, 262

biting, 21

bitterness, 121

black, 2, 6–7, 12, 39–47, 51, 57, 79, 94, 98, 112–113, 116, 118, 180, 182–183, 190, 220, 245, 254

Black Girl, 2, 112–113, 116, 118

black poetry, 42, 44

blackmailing, 196

blood purity, 67

Boigny, Houphouët, 54

book, 11–12, 14–16, 18–20, 22, 25, 58, 68, 95, 98–99, 128, 158, 209, 239

book-length, 16

Bordeaux, 24

borders, 210

boundaries, 3, 54, 68, 120, 134, 163, 215

bourgeois, 3, 8, 21, 89, 123, 189, 238

brawl, 143, 145

brilliant, 16