The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa
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The Sahel for the French Empire
The french colonized senegal in the 18 fifties. They didn't know the region very well, so it lacked a kind of rich soil that would create a kind of plantation economies. The part of their empire that became really important economically is the gulf of guinea,. especially the ivory coast. After independence, after independence, sehelian states remained weak and dependent upon the metropole. And so the desahel just became the slave or reservoir for these regions.
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