When Colonization Perpetuates the Power Relationships Specific to Court Societies

The phenomenon of corruption is common in Mali declining through-rights and other acts of patronage implies unequal treatment, a personification of trade. It embodies the basic rules of a court society and thus prevents the proper functioning of the bureaucratic state based on standards impersonalization, guaranteeing equal treatment. From these two separate registers, some anthropologists explain the recurrence and spread of the phenomenon of corruption by a common historical phenomenon of entrenchment of separate registers normative. In other words the principles of the court society precolonial were added, without removing them, the principles of the functioning bureaucracy set up by the French colonization. However, analysis of archives in the area of Bandiagara in Mali shows, on the contrary, the colonial power was never put in place rules of a game. It has reinforced the principles of individual companies to court and has perpetuated the favorite figures of the banned and the courtier. And that continuity was not always made consciously and without allowing slander to moral judgments such as the idea of decolonization too early to view the extent of corruption usually present.