Sahel

Experts, publications and projects on Sahel

Staff, community members, research projects and publications

ASC research staff with an expertise on Sahel:

Mirjam de Bruijn (Senior researcher)
Abdourahmane Idrissa (Senior researcher)

ASC community members with an expertise on Sahel:

Mamadou Bodian
Joost Brouwer
Maya Turolla

Research projects related to Sahel:


Nomads facing change: political mobilisation among Sahelian pastoralists
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk

The governance of ‘ungoverned spaces’
Researchers: Han van Dijk

Publications related to Sahel by keyword:


Connected Sahel-Sahara in turmoil: the past in the future (2022)

Religious movements in the drylands: ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism (2022)

Drylands connected: mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies (2022)

Mediatization of ethnographic research practice in the digital age: an essay about research and Sahel dynamics since 1990s (2022)

While the focus is on Ukraine, Russia’s presence in the Sahel is steadily growing (2022)

Yesterday meets tomorrow in Sahelian intellectual currents (2021)

The Sahel: a cognitive mapping (2021)

Democratic struggle, institutional reform, and state resilience in the African Sahel (2020)

The dialectics of democratization and stability in the Sahel (2020)

Des élites contre la nation : la révolution africaine au Sahel (2020)

We only show the ten most recent titles. You may find more publications on this country on our Publications page.