Sandcastles and dustclouds in Mali in the aftermath of France’s intervention
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
In his novel Desert the noble prize winning French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio describes the two waves of destruction to which nomad cultures in the Sahel have been subjected in the past 100 years: French colonialism on the one hand, and modern labour migration to metropole and the alienation that goes with it, on the …
