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In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… water levels declining rapidly since the 1950s. The African Sahel countries face one of the most hostile climate … to solving famine in Africa of came in “the crisis in the Sahel.” Over a period of seven years, starting in 1968, the …
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.

A New View of West African Empires

Review of African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, by Michael A. Gomez (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)
… Part 1 focusses on the early history of West Africa and the Sahel region. Gomez considers the proto-empires of the …
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.

Fifty Years and Counting

Review of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
… patterns of state affairs. Overall, events north of the Sahel closely resemble those occurring in areas south of it, …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… Colonel Muammar Gaddafi conceived of an “Arab belt” across Sahelian Africa . In 1981, a Libyan-supported group called …