INTRODUCTION: POST-GADDAFI REPERCUSSIONS IN THE SAHEL AND WEST AFRICA

IF 0.3 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Strategic Review for Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI:10.35293/SRSA.V35I2.124
Mats Utas
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The areas south of Libya have experienced more than their fair share of conflict and rapid social change. In earlier times, the main routes of trade, commerce and pilgrimage between West African and the Arab Peninsula passed through this region, also once inhabited by mighty warrior empires (see for example Bawuro 1972). However, as the empires along these routes faded away, and international ocean shipping opened up this part of Africa to the forces of global trade and capitalism, the centres of authority that once controlled this region also vanished. What remained was an almost open territory: unwelcoming and hard, but also a place of possibilities and the freedom to roam for those who had mastered the art of survival under such difficult conditions. This was the land of the Tuareg and other semi-nomadic groups who controlled cities and important trading posts such as Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal in contemporary Mali. This is the world of the Sahel and the parts of Western Africa that straddles Libya, and a region that currently includes Southern Algeria, Northern Mali, Niger, Chad, Mauritania and parts of Northern Nigeria. These are therefore also the countries and areas that have come to experience the full effect of what we define as post-Gaddafi repercussions.
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导言:后卡扎菲对撒哈拉和西非的影响
利比亚南部地区经历了相当多的冲突和快速的社会变革。在更早的时候,西非和阿拉伯半岛之间的主要贸易、商业和朝圣路线都经过这个地区,这里也曾经有强大的勇士帝国居住(例如,见巴武罗,1972年)。然而,随着这些路线上的帝国逐渐消失,国际海运向全球贸易和资本主义势力开放了非洲的这一地区,曾经控制这一地区的权力中心也消失了。剩下的是一片几乎开放的领土:不受欢迎,也很艰难,但对于那些掌握了在如此困难的条件下生存艺术的人来说,这也是一个充满可能性和自由的地方。这是图阿雷格人和其他半游牧民族的土地,他们控制着当代马里的城市和重要的贸易站,如廷巴克图、加奥和基达尔。这是萨赫勒地区和横跨利比亚的西非部分地区,目前包括阿尔及利亚南部、马里北部、尼日尔、乍得、毛里塔尼亚和尼日利亚北部部分地区。因此,这些国家和地区也经历了我们所定义的后卡扎菲影响的全部影响。
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