000			01547 a2200157 4500
999			_c25713 _d25713
020			_a9780199485666
082			_a338.96 _bMIC-A
100			_aMichailof, Serge
245			_aAfricanistan _b: development or Jihad
260			_bOxford University Press _c2018 _aNew Delhi
300			_axxiii, 376p.
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aWhile progress in Africa can be seen across the board, every day-migrants are dying in the Mediterranean. The continent is in fact a powder keg. The powder is demographics. And the detonator is unemployment. What is worrying for the continent is even more dramatic for the Sahel, a huge region of about 100 million inhabitants, where insecurity is spreading and which may act as a detonator for West Africa with a population of 700 million in 25 years. The mass unemployment of young people far more than jihadist propaganda, is the primary explanation for the dramatic collapse of Afghanistan. Despite major differences in geography and culture, there are huge similarities between the Sahel and Afghanistan, increasing insecurity, drug trafficking, and the spread of radical Islam being the most worrisome. Unfortunately the same recipes that failed in Afghanistan are again being rolled out in the Sahel. Without a radical change in the international community's behaviour, we will soon be confronted with, first, a 'Sahelistan' and then an 'Africanistan, ' an African Afghanistan, but five- or ten-times worse.
650			_aPolitics and government _vPolitical stability _zAfghanistan
942			_2ddc _cBK