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Yes, it is possible to reinvent the wheel. Just ask Columbia historian Richard W. Bulliet, whose latest book is on the ubiquitous and circular object long considered one of the world’s greatest inventions.
From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality
By Gregory Mann
Cambridge University Press
Mann has written the first historical account of the rise of NGO power in West Africa. The history professor explores why, in the years following independence from French colonial rule in 1960, when state sovereignty was highly valued, international NGOs took on some of the functions of government in the West African Sahel, a stretch of land bordering the Sahara. Mann highlights the rise of ambitious and aggressive African governments, the effects of drought and…
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