The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel

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ID9308339
EditorsLeonardo A Villalon (0000-0003-4464-4812, Political Science, University of Florida)
Year2021
Pages816
Publication date2021-10-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOxford Handbook of the African Sahel (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198816959.001.0001
OpenAlexW4200241562
ISBN9780198816959
Open LibraryOL33913346M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Bringing together a wide diversity of authors based on three continents and from different disciplinary backgrounds, this book offers analyses of a wide range of factors that characterize and that are shaping the future of the African Sahel. In forty chapters, organized in nine sections, the book examines this complex and rapidly changing region on multiple dimensions. Collectively, the book attempts to offer an understanding of the specificity of the Sahel, and to examine its core characteristics as shaped by the geographic, cultural, and political parameters that define it. Following a series of chapters focused on the shaping of the Sahelian space as a region, six chapters explore the distinct national trajectories of the countries of the political Sahel: Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Chad. The extraordinary combination of environmental, economic, and political challenges, and the ways in which Sahelian states and societies have responded, are the primary focus of the three subsequent sections, while the various parameters of the lived realities of these societies in motion are explored in the four final sections of the book. Transversally throughout, the chapters aim to offer an interdisciplinary and holistic view of the challenges and the dynamics that are shaping a region at a historical crossroads, and an understanding of the many factors that feed and perpetuate its vulnerabilities and fragilities, as well as its sources of resilience

Geography · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Geopolitics · History · Conditions environnementales · Ecology · Economic conditions · Economic history · environmental conditions · politics and government · Social conditions

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