Alessio Iocchi: Living through Crisis by Lake Chad. Violence, Labor and Resources
AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between today's Cameroon and today's Chad? Or about the pre-colonial kingdom of Kanem-Bornu?
Leonardo Villalon, Rahmane Idrissa (ed.): Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel
SAHEL IN ENGLISH: France has, in a strange way, managed to preserve the hegemony over its former colonies, also in terms of the dissemination of knowledge. This book is a much-needed exception, which provides the background for understanding the recent coup in Mali.
: With a striking sobriety, the documentary Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy tells of the little-known abuses that took place during the reign of the despot Habré in Chad.