Judith Scheele, Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (London: Profile, 2026), 374 pp. More than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered in
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From Equator Gavin Jacobson: To what extent is the current offensive in Mali unprecedented? Rahmane Idrissa: The violence itself isn’t unprecedented by the standards of
Amandla!: Ibrahim Traoré came to power in a coup in 2022. What was the situation in the country that led to the coup? Rahmane Idrissa:
The 1970s marked a turning point in the history of the peasantry of the Sahel, the arid and semi-arid band immediately south of the Sahara