Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study is situated within the context of the spiritual and cultural revival observed in Burkina Faso, marked by the rise of Kemetism in Ouagadougou. This movement, which claims a lineage with ancient Egypt, emerges as both a response to identity quests and a form of symbolic resistance to Westernization. The main objective is to analyze the processes through which Kemetism gains legitimacy in the Burkinabè capital, by examining the discursive, ritual, and media strategies employed by its actors, as well as the internal paradoxes that arise from them.The research, conducted between 2017 and 2024, adopts a qualitative approach grounded in the anthropology of religious and political practices. It unfolded in two phases: the first focused on the student movement “2h pour nous, 2h pour Kamita”, and the second extended to other Kemetic organizations. Data were collected primarily through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and media analysis, involving 28 informants, mainly from the movements “2h pour nous, 2h pour Kamita” and LEGRATA (Le Grand Retour de l’Afrique sur la Terre de ses Ancêtres). Findings reveal that the legitimation of Kemetism relies on ritual practices (djibôn), alliances with traditional mediators (dozos), and a strong presence on social media. However, these strategies generate tensions, including ritual dependency on external actors and contradictions between spiritual orthodoxy and the pursuit of public visibility. The study thus shows that the construction of Kemetic legitimacy, while strengthening social recognition, simultaneously exposes the movement to paradoxical dynamics of delegitimization
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".