• Alex Thurston

Many see Salafism as rigid and unbending, but in the Sahel, political conditions force its proponents to be smart and savvy.

• Chérif Keita

There is a remarkable connection between Mali and South Africa, dating back to the liberation struggle, and actively encouraged by the author’s work.

• Ryan Skinner

The film "Africa Mia” (2019), directed by Richard Minier and Edouard Salier, explores the musical connections between Cuba and Mali.

• Scott Remer

Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.

• Ousmane Zoromé Samassekou
• Aïcha Macky

An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.

• Bakary Camara
• Leah Durst-Lee
• Lotte Pelckmans
• Marie Rodet

Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.

• Sara Hanaburgh

The performative documentary 'Sun of the Soil' restores the historical record of the 'great king' of Mali, Mansa Musa.

• Fatoumata Kane

As the death toll from political unrest rises in Mali, what's behind the conflict and how is it likely to end?

• Gregory Mann

The heat is on in Bamako. The political crisis in Mali is moving so fast, by the time we publish, things have moved on. Here's a good backgrounder.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel
• Mame Fatou-Niang

What roles have francophone African women played in movements for pan-African liberation, historically and now?

• Ryan Skinner

The famed Malian musician celebrates his 70th birthday and 50 years in the industry in 2019.

• Rahmane Idrissa

How local conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara over justice, or rather its absence, get dragged into tensions between outsiders.

• Gregory Mann

Mali can't guarantee its citizens that it will protect them.

• Liz Timbs

Preserving the photographs of five Malian photographers - including Mamadou Cissé and Malick Sidibé - online.

• Gili Levinson

Malians started arriving in New York City in the 1980s, numbering about 8,000 now. They also brought their music.

• Noah Tsika

An interview with Samba Gadjigo, the late Ousmane Sembene’s longtime friend and official biographer about the resurgence of Sembene’s work.

• Madina Thiam

It has become customary to discuss Mali while simultaneously ignoring Mali.

• Fatin Abbas

"Timbuktu," the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.

• Andrew Hernann

Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.

• Gregory Mann

Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?