Culture locale et organisation de l'espace urbain de Bangui (Centrafrique)
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Abstract EN:
The of bangui was founded by the french colonizers. It became the meeting-point between two opposite cultural patterns. The first was brought by the european twen-planning system, the latter was the african way of life brought by the bush. This juncture lead to ambuguous and encreaching situations which were the source of the most violent clashes. Bangui and its area were extended according to a town-planning system spotted wish conficting conditions which set apart the new rising social classes from the bush try to ignore the traditional. The image shown but the town as a paradox, their ways of life in bangui is rural people thta come from the bush try to igonre the traditional system and its logical to take up the image shown by the town but as a paradox, their ways of life remain as rural as before since every district in bangui is alike to their native village. Thus the city of bangui partially foils to cradicate the local way og life and its ancewtral conditions despite its modern cultural patterns
Abstract FR:
Bangui, ville coloniale fut un espace de rencontre de deux modeles culturels : occidentale urbain et africain rural. De cette rencontre decoulaient des ambiguites, des imbrications qui ont fait surgir les luttes les plus apres. Les regles d'organisation de l'espace urbain de bangui se sont developpees de maniere conflictuelle opposant les classes sociales naissantes aux modeles culturels traditionnels. Les ruraux qui tentent de recuser la logique du systeme traditionnel pour adopter l'image que leur propose la ville, se retrouvent paradoxalement dans un cadre de vie similaire; les differents quartier de bangui sont en effet semblables a ceux de leurs villages d'origine. Ainsi, avec ses modeles culturels modernes, la ville de bangui n'arrive pas a enrayer totalement le mode de vie local et les traditions ancestrales qui l'enveloppent.