In this dissertation, I assess the political, social and economic foundation, unfolding and impact the surveillance apparatus traced from Western surveillance blueprints French authorities implemented to monitor the Hajj from colonial Senegal beginning in 1895. I focus mainly on the clash between the Hajj institution and the mechanisms of the colonial state. I also emphasize the consequences of that encounter in colonial context to shed light on the relationships between public health policies, colonialism and Hajj in order to unlock the dilemmas and strategies French authorities and colonial Senegalese Muslims both involved in "public health diplomacy" faced. This dissertation contributes to the base of knowledge in Islam and the history of the public health of sub-Saharan Africa generally, and of Senegal particularly. It also informs policy makers on the origins of current government regulations that owe a lot more to the colonial past than to modern epidemiology.
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