Cheref, Abdelkader
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
AFRICANA STUDIES
2025 1-4955-1331-9How has Algeria, the Mecca of Revolution between 1954 and 1962, fared since successfully throwing off one hundred and thirty years of despotic French rule? What has been the fate of neighboring Tunisia and Morocco, former Protectorates of France whose transition to independence in 1956 appeared at the time to have been relatively peaceful? And further to the south, why has the government of Mali rejected any intervention by French armed forces in the region – after decades of tolerating France’s military “aid” on their soil? How, when, and why did the narco-jihadists that we read about in the headlines gain control of the Sahel? For answers to these and other questions, Abdelkader Cheref’s collection of newspaper articles since 2005 provides succinct and penetrating answers. Published here together for the first time, these articles bring the recent past, and particularly the repeated crises in this part of Africa and the Mediterranean, vividly alive.
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