The junta belt
What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?
What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?
The excessive reporting of the interplay between non-African powers in the Sahel—however crucial it may be to understand regional dynamics—betrays a Western-centric bias in international news coverage.
Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.
Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.
Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.
How local conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara over justice, or rather its absence, get dragged into tensions between outsiders.
Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.
Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.