Link to the video: Canal U de la MSH Sud
Conference around the book The intertwining crises in the Sahel. Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso (Karthala, 2023), co-organized by APAD, the Montpellier Land Pole and MSH-Sud as part of its Conversations des sciences, on March 14, 2024. Watch online on the channel Canal U de la MSH Sud.
It is the convergence and intertwining of multiple crises that help explain the particularly worrying situation currently faced by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, of which the recent coups d’état are a symptom: agro-pastoral crisis, employment crisis, crisis of political elites, crisis of public services, crisis of Islam, crisis of Western-centrism, security crisis, and crisis of national armies.
Combining rigorous analyses based on an in-depth knowledge of the Sahelian context (particularly Niger) with “Sahel-centered” civic positions, this book draws on articles by the author published in the press over the past ten years, showing that the roots of the Sahelian impasse are not new. These crises are deep and have never found solutions either from national governments or from their Western partners. Only initiatives, reflections, reforms, innovations, and original solutions emerging from within the three countries concerned will make it possible to overcome the current deadlock.
Jean-Pierre OLIVIER DE SARDAN is a Franco-Nigerien anthropologist, co-founder of LASDEL in Niamey, a social science laboratory internationally known for its work on public policies. He is notably the author of *Anthropology and Development* (Karthala, 1995), *The Rigor of Qualitative Research* (Academia-Bruylant, 2008), and *The Revenge of Contexts* (Karthala, 2021).
They talked about it:
- RFI, “International development aid has failed in its major strategic objectives”
- TV5 Monde, “Military interventions have not secured populations”