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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Всеобщая история</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8127</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-833X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23948</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8127-2020-12-1-28-34</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>African Studies</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Из истории Африки</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The history of the Notion of the State in West Africa: from the destruction of empires to the emergence of the modern state resulting from colonization (the case of the Mali Empire)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>История понятия государства в Западной Африке: от разрушения империй до появления современного государства в результате колонизации (на примере империи Мали)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Camara</surname><given-names>Sidy</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Камара</surname><given-names>Сиди</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">postgraduate student, The Department of political analysis and Management</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">аспирант кафедры политического анализа и управления</bio><email>sidicamara1980@yahoo.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">People’s Friendship University of Russia</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 12, NO1 (2020)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 12, №1 (2020)</issue-title><fpage>28</fpage><lpage>34</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-06-11"><day>11</day><month>06</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Camara S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Камара С.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Camara S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Камара С.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/23948">https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/23948</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">This article aims to address the question of the emergence of empires in West Africa from the ninth century to the present day. The author plans to make an in-depth analysis of the political formation of the different empires which have succeeded each other in this vast West African space which nowadays shelters the current republics of Mali and Mauritania in particular and in general throughout other West African countries (Guinea, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Niger). The largest and most famous empires that appeared on the territory of what is now Mali is called the Ghana Empire in the 9th century and was succeeded by the Mali or Mandé Empire in the 13th century. The influence of these empires throughout Africa and the rest of the world shows us a particular interest in understanding over time the notion of the State in Africa before the colonization and destruction of the African political system and its replacement by colonial state with the arrival of Europeans. Today the question of the weakness of the modern or postcolonial state in Africa and Mali poses many questions not only in the concert of nations but also in the academic and university environment. We will try to demonstrate in this article the link between the break in the evolution of the African state and the imposition of the modern European state through the colonial state which is at the root of the backwardness of African countries in terms political, economic and social compared to the rest of the world.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Автор статьи ставит перед собой задачу проанализировать вопрос о возникновении империй в Западной Африке с девятого века до наших дней. Самая большая и самая известная империя, появившаяся на территории современного государства Мали, в IX веке называлась Империей Ганы, а в XIII веке на смену ей пришла Империя Мали или Манде. Влияние этих империй в Африке позволяет прийти к пониманию понятия государства в Африке до колонизации и разрушения политической системы Африки и ее замены колониальным государством с приходом европейцев. В этой статье мы попытаемся продемонстрировать связь между разрывом в развитии африканского государства и навязыванием современного европейского государства через колониальное государство, которое лежит в основе отсталости африканских стран с точки зрения политической, экономической и социальной по сравнению с остальным миром.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Empire</kwd><kwd>State</kwd><kwd>political stability</kwd><kwd>historical evolution</kwd><kwd>corruption</kwd><kwd>European colonization</kwd><kwd>Postcolonial state</kwd><kwd>modernization</kwd><kwd>poverty</kwd><kwd>West Africa</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>империя</kwd><kwd>государство</kwd><kwd>политическая стабильность</kwd><kwd>историческая эволюция</kwd><kwd>коррупция</kwd><kwd>европейская колонизация</kwd><kwd>постколониальное государство</kwd><kwd>модернизация</kwd><kwd>бедность</kwd><kwd>Западная Африка</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Ki Zerbo J., Niane D.T. 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