Africa & Asia

Here is my blog of political and anthropological reflections. Much of my professional career was in West Africa (and some of my childhood as well), but I also know East, Central and North Africa quite well. I have visited most Arab-speaking countries from Morocco to the Persian Empire. I know both Iran and Afghanistan, and many of the surrounding countries in Central and Southern Asia.

With terrorism, peace, sexual violence and injustice in the mix, this will be an eclectic series of articles !

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Posts tagged rural development

Women - Farmers of Africa - Produce Milk, not Spare Ribs

“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.

AfricaElisabeth DrummNovember 9, 2020Mali, Tuareg, Fulani, Angelique Kidjo, Goddess, agriculture, rural development, Benin

Looking Back at Mali’s bad governance (2020)

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,

AfricaElisabeth DrummOctober 23, 2020Mali, Governance, negative peace, military, rural development, starvation, crop failure, Timbuktu, Gao, Kidal, ACORD, NGO

Africa & Asia

With terrorism, peace, sexual violence and injustice in the mix, this will be an eclectic series of articles !

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