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The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa

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What Is the Meaning of the Word Sudan?

Sudan is more human geography. Behind sahel, you have just this vision of a of of a very austere forbidding equology. And that's where it was kind of pushed to two words, and this was, of course, a kind of failure of independence. Because independence was supposed to be the building up of nation states with e sound economic bearings and the capacity to govern themselves. Now, if you become the sahel, by definition, you cannot actually govern yourself. You become a kind of, what is what is a correct word? A a word, a word. Ye, that's exactly the word i was i was thinking about here ofthe, what we

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