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The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa

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The Songa Empire and Its Characteristics

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

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