The commodification of water and land in Mali Sékou Diarra 2011-06-07, Issue 533 Nowadays, politicians in Africa are generally more concerned with market efficiency, economic growth rates, productivity of financial capital and the security of the rich than they are about human rights and the security of the people. In African countries, if progress is [...]
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By NEIL MacFARQUHAR The New York Times Published: Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 9:07 p.m. SOUMOUNI, Mali – The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: Their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were [...] Looting Mali’s History As demand for its antiquities soars, the West African country is losing its most prized artifacts to illegal sellers and smugglers By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Aaron Huey Smithsonian magazine, November 2009 I’m sitting in the courtyard of a mud-walled compound in a village in central Mali, 40 miles east of the [...] |
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