Unearthing indigenous knowledge
If savanna West Africa is a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it’s because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.
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Madina Thiam
Madina Thiam is a historian of the Sahel and West Africa, and an assistant professor at New York University.
From the Niger to the Nile
In the late 1890s and early 1900s, a number of West African Muslims migrated east, settling in Sudan and Mecca, to seek refuge from European colonization.
Can the Malians Speak
It has become customary to discuss Mali while simultaneously ignoring Mali.