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Rahmane Idrissa is a senior researcher at the African Studies Center of Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Persuasion and Violence (2017) and L’Afrique pour les nuls (“Africa for Dummies,” 2015). His research concentrates on states in West Africa, modern and premodern, and related issues. (July 2023)
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