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Dignity for the Sahel
Dignity for the Sahel
The revolutions in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the old colonial powers are seldom understood in terms of Africans’ own agency and their rejection of the imperialist humiliation thrust upon them, writes ROGER McKENZIE

EVEN the most cursory of glances at recent events in the Sahel should lead most reasonable-minded observers to see the complete disdain that Africans are held in by the collective West.
The discussion about the recent Sahel revolutions — because that’s what they are — take place within the prism of someplace or something else.
It raises the question of whose stories matter? Whose history matters? What does this mean for the now and for the future?
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