About
Senior lecturer in political science at Sciences Po Bordeaux, member of the Les Afrique dans le Monde (LAM) laboratory. Last book published: Les hussards noirs de la colonie. Instituteurs africains et petites patries en AOF (1913-1959), Paris, Karthala, 2018 (with Céline Labrune-Badiane).
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Introduction to the topic. The France-Rwanda dispute (1994-2022)
In Politique africaine (2022/2 No 166)
“Senghor Wanted Us All to be Senghors”
The Nostalgic Pathways of a Literate Generation
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2013/2 No 118)
Nationalization from Below: A Banal Nationalism?
The Case of Wolofization in Senegal
In Raisons politiques (2010/1 No 37)
The Diffusion and Practices of External Voting
- By Thibaut Jaulin
- and Étienne Smith
In Afrique contemporaine (2015/4 No 256)
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L’idée de la Casamance autonome, by Séverine Awenengo Dalberto
In Politique étrangère (2025/1 Printemps)
“History’s judgment is not unimportant”: An interview with Vincent Duclert, President of the Research Commission on the French Archives relating to Rwanda and the Tutsi Genocide
- Interview with Vincent Duclert,
- conducted by Étienne Smith,
- Christine Deslaurier,
- et al.
In Politique africaine (2022/2 No 166)
Academic expertise and diplomatic distinction in the face of genocide: An interview with Jean-François Bayart
- Interview with Jean-François Bayart,
- conducted by Étienne Smith
In Politique africaine (2022/2 No 166)
Introduction to the topic. The France-Rwanda dispute (1994-2022)
In Politique africaine (2022/2 No 166)
Using external electoral maps to map Senegalese migration
- By Étienne Smith,
- Translated by Suzan Nolan
In Afrique contemporaine (2015/4 No 256)
The Diffusion and Practices of External Voting
- By Thibaut Jaulin
- and Étienne Smith
In Afrique contemporaine (2015/4 No 256)
Jean-François Dupaquier. Politiques, militaires et mercenaires français au Rwanda. Chronique d’une désinformation
In Afrique contemporaine (2015/1 No 253)
The “Battles” of Paris and New York
An Analysis of the Transnational Electoral Behaviour of Senegalese Immigrants in France and the United States
- By Jean-Philippe Dedieu,
- Lisa Chauvet,
- Flore Gubert,
- et al.
In Revue française de science politique (2013/5 Vol. 63)
A Historic Perspective on the Democratic Springs in Sub-Saharan Africa
In Afrique contemporaine (2013/1 No 245)
“Senghor Wanted Us All to be Senghors”
The Nostalgic Pathways of a Literate Generation
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2013/2 No 118)
The Ambiguous Adventures of Traditional Power in Contemporary Africa
- By Vincent Foucher
- and Étienne Smith
In Revue internationale et stratégique (2011/1 No 81)
“So You No Longer Greet Me, Léopold?"
Mamadou Dia and Léopold S. Senghor
- By Roland Colin,
- Thomas Perrot
- and Étienne Smith
In Afrique contemporaine (2010/1 No 233)
Nationalization from Below: A Banal Nationalism?
The Case of Wolofization in Senegal
In Raisons politiques (2010/1 No 37)
Jean-Loup Amselle. L'occident décroche: enquête sur les postcolonialismes, Paris, Stock, 2008, 320 pages
In Critique internationale (2009/1 No 42)
Pacts, Alliances, and Jokes
Local Practice, Global Discourse
- By Cécile Canut
- and Étienne Smith
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2006/4 No 184)
Cross-Section of a Nation
The Narrative of "Cousinages" in Senegal
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2006/4 No 184)
Interview with Jean-Loup Amselle
In Raisons politiques (2006/2 No 22)