What Happened to the Citizens of Senegal?

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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.

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