The Songa Empire and Its Characteristics

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In the post songa, there was a kind of period of chos, but then out of chaos came some some organization. It reminds me of what happened at the end of roman empire, where you had all those new states that kind of basically emerge out of the corpse of the roman empire. But of course, building new states is very violent. So that's, that's what gives the sense of chaos to the period. However, especially in a very particular part of the sael sudan, this part that we see being dominated by jehadist groups to day, there are two main actors who emerge and did not immediately build states: the toire and the ful

Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive interview that puts the present conflict—which has drawn in French military and then Russian mercenary intervention—into deep historical and political-economic context from struggles over the slave trade, through French colonialism, to the neocolonial imposition of neoliberalism. Idrissa’s work: newleftreview.org/issues/ii132/articles/rahmane-idrissa-the-sahel-a-cognitive-mapping newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/kabores-defeat nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/25/potent-policies-of-empire lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/rahmane-idrissa/coup-contrecouplrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/rahmane-idrissa/countries-without-currency Special outro music from Ali Farka Touré. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: haymarketbooks.org/books/1887-inside-the-second-wave-of-feminism