From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel

by Gregory Mann

This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin stretch of land bordering the Sahara - became the subjects of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. Just when its states were strongest and most ambitious, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107602521
• ISBN13: 9781107602526
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"