RICHARD KUBA, CAROLA LENTZ and CLAUDE NURUKYOR SOMDA (eds) Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Karthala (25 [euro] ISBN 2 84586 459 0) 2004 290 pp
The past appears to be the same of the most important resources of the at hand In the essays in this collection, the importance of history in attempts to fix the instant and the future is matched and nothing else by its very plasticity. The population of the various corners of Burkina Faso has been characterised by the agency of impressive mobility and, as Lentz points not at home in her own chapter, it is paradoxical that a