It is as if a library burned down
Salafist fighters burn hundreds of rare manuscripts, some unique and centuries old, before leaving Timbuktu to French paratroopers.
Salafist fighters burn hundreds of rare manuscripts, some unique and centuries old, before leaving Timbuktu to French paratroopers.
Mali’s rebel armies, their shifting alliances and their fans make for quite a spectacle.
What does all that mean for French-African politics? It’s hard to tell what will next emerge from that fetid swamp.
We mean the kind of bad that comes from being caught in a Beckettian loop of either saying nothing at all or having nothing to say.
Historian Greg Mann is not a big fan of Tuareg group, Tinariwen. The music is alright, he agrees, but the politics is rancid.
A few things are worth saying about the mutiny and the coup that rocked Bamako over the last few days.