The Enemy Must Be the Jehadist

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There is a sense of failure in all those countries. And so we've also the pan african vision of the world. We can see ourselves as being still in the process of fighting a national liberation war. In this anti colonial national liberation discourse, the enemy must be france. That's one thing. The other reason why it became popular is just the effect of of social networks. I mean, before this discourse was kind of confined amongst people who read books and newspapersd things like that. Now we've wive facebook and especially what's up. What's up is the measure culprit here. It is spread like wildfire,. Because, you know, yi can just make virios

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