The Dark Sahara - author interview
An interesting interview with British Anthropologist Jeremy Keenan author of “The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa” that some of you might find interesting....
British Anthropologist Jeremy Keenan on "The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa"
"Keenan is a professor of social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has spent over four decades working in and writing about this region. He traces AFRICOM and the US military concern over al-Qaeda’s presence in Africa back to the February 2003 kidnapping of thirty-two European tourists in Algeria’s Sahara desert. The hostage taking was widely blamed on Islamic militants thought to be affiliated with al-Qaeda, but Professor Keenan argues that the Bush administration and the Algerian government were the ones to blame.
His latest book is called The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa. Its sequel is called The Dying Sahara, will be released next year. "
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