Listen to this Hymn of Nature from Rokia Traoré. No translation is needed. It sounds wonderful. You feel the vibrations of these lyrics and music, coming from the cradle of humanity, Africa.
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Catastrophic flooding in Bamako on August 5th, 2021
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Since 2016, the growing insecurity in Central Mali has forced thousands of people to seek refuge in makeshift camps in the cities, leaving everything behind.
One such refugee camp sprung up on a stretch of vacant land in the Faladiè neighborhood of Bamako, Mali’s capital city, located between a park of livestock pens and an abandoned garbage dump. This site now constitutes the largest informal refugee camp in Bamako. In April 2020, a large section of the camp was ravaged by fire. When the ashes cooled, most residents soon moved back, with nowhere else to go.
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This is a book about politics, peace and disarmament: indispensable for students of West Africa, of Sahara security, of development and disarmament, of terrorists and migrations.
There are some original ideas to discover and some challenging political themes that offer very new ways of looking at the problems of Africa.
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Adam contributed regularly and brilliantly to international media such as Radio France International, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Africable, Jeune Afrique …. His work for peace and clean government included exposés of Cocaine smuggling from Colombia, and peace building with his essay Centre du Mali : enjeux et dangers d’une crise négligée (2017). Several presidents of Mali called upon his services to run their press offices.
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UNICEF's message on protecting girls against Gender Based Violence (GBV) is this: we must teach boys to respect girls. Watch UNICEF’s message on BBC. Plus, new initiative in support of girls launched in Segou, Mali together with sister cities Richmond, Virginia and Angoulême, France.
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COVID has just taken an old friend, Soumaïla Cissé who was the Official Leader of the Opposition in Mali and aged 71, who died December 15th 2020 from the effects of COVID-19.
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Originally this document was a teacher handout for a Mali Exhibit in Richmond VA, for the Standard of Learning in Virginia’s Elementary Schools.
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The problem of race in Richmond is greatly accentuated by memories of the American Civil War – rather as Ségou is still struggling with the aftermath of French colonial rule.
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Former president Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) died on November 10th 2020 in a Turkish hospital, where he had traveled for a heart operation. He was 72 years old.
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“Women are the backbone of Africa” said world music diva Angélique Kidjo on 20th September 2014 in an interview on the TV channel France 24. Yet many foreigners do not see it! The development agencies are guilty (even today) of neglecting women.
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The CENTRAL QUESTION of this paper is to enquire what is Mali’s underlying weakness? (Abstract)
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The death of Mali’s ex-president Moussa Traoré in September 2020
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I have been in-and-out of Mali since 1980. Back in the early 1980s I lived in Timbuktu, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, helping to rebuild an economy and a society ravaged by drought. Crops had failed, livestock had died,
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Dartmouth College lecture on PLANETARY HEALTH by Dr Richard Horton: medical knowledge and its distribution throughout Africa
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Two grandmothers attending the Ségou Festival on the Niger River in Mali — on a donkey cart.
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An important new book by anthropology professor friend and colleague Dr. Christopher Brooks, Virginia Commenwealth University, reviewed here by Dr Robin Poulton
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Before and after reaching a peace agreement in June, women leaders have been pressuring decision-makers for 50-50 representation in all bodies involved in its implementation. (2015)
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Summary of the panel discussion written by Gretchen Gayle and Robin Poulton
Women War & Peace Conference 2013: VFoM with VCU, RSCC and RPEC
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There is a link between Richmond and the lion king — not the Disney cartoon, but the true African story of Prince Sunjata Keita, who lost his throne as a child and returned in 1235 to create the Mali Empire. Many Richmonders came from there.
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