Last sentence is pure torture, felt for a long long time by anyone self-reflective working on this region
Yvan Guichaoua
‘The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground in which distant powers and states jettison their problems.’
Rahmane Idrissa on a human history of the Sahara.
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The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground in...