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The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa

The Dig

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What Happened to the Citizens of Senegal?

During the imperial period, there was a transparent slave trade. It was highly regulated because those imperial states had ta capacity to control and administer the trade. Thedisappearance of this imperial control means that many, many small states can also engage in in thi slave trade. So it kind of increased the violence and the intensity of the slave trade. Then you had of these citizen classes who began to be threatened by this. And above all, you do not sell a moslem to a christian. When you have such a level on an intensity of social contradiction, you are in a pre revolutionary moment.

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