Mali

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Russia and the wagner group become so popular in spite of such brutal atrocities being committed on the ground. It's not that russia is popular, but ite france. France and the west are unpopular. And then you have also in the population the suspicion that this is actually a way for the westerners andeanan and the french to protect the jharists. But i think there is also something else going on here that is more troubling. I think we are almost in a kind of prussnonsense moment... In a sort of critical juncture or like the fall of the berlin wall,. You have this wall that failed, and you have the ending with

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