Dig: The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 135 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive interview that puts the present conflict—which has drawn in French military and then Russian mercenary intervention—into deep historical and political-economic context from struggles over the slave trade, through French colonialism, to the neocolonial imposition of neoliberalism.
Idrissa’s work:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii132/articles/rahmane-idrissa-the-sahel-a-cognitive-mapping
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/kabores-defeat
nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/25/potent-policies-of-empire
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/rahmane-idrissa/coup-contrecoup
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/rahmane-idrissa/countries-without-currency
Special outro music from Ali Farka Touré.
Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig
Check out Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: haymarketbooks.org/books/1887-inside-the-second-wave-of-feminism
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and |
| 0:04.8 | By community legal services in Philadelphia, which has an exciting new podcast about systemic racism in the law called house that legal |
| 0:16.9 | Hello, everyone. I'm Key Toe Bar. I'm a civil legal aid attorney |
| 0:21.8 | History enthusiast and chief equity and inclusion officer at community legal services of Philadelphia |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to how is that legal the podcast where we break down examples of systemic racial inequity in the law and policy and talk to |
| 0:35.1 | Experts whose stories of injustice will make you ask how in the world is that legal |
| 0:41.8 | As a queer black woman, I've looked at the world around me and asked myself the question |
| 0:46.8 | How is that legal for pretty much my entire life? |
| 0:49.7 | I grew up in the Delta South to a working class single parent and as early as seven years old |
| 0:56.0 | I knew in my gut that our financial circumstances were immoral at worst and inequitable at best |
| 1:03.3 | Our expert guests come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences |
| 1:07.7 | They'll walk us through history and put names to the laws and policies that create the disparities we see every day |
| 1:14.4 | But I promise not to leave you stuck with knowledge and without solutions |
| 1:19.1 | We'll also talk about what's currently being done and what must be done to create a world free of injustice |
| 1:25.2 | And that's the part I'm really excited about. It's a conversation. You won't want to miss |
| 1:30.4 | So be sure to subscribe to how is that legal wherever you get your podcast |
| 1:37.8 | How is that legal is produced by row home productions? I'm your host key to war |
| 1:44.6 | Back when I was a reporter at the Philadelphia city paper one of my beats was to put it generally |
| 1:49.9 | How poor people were constantly getting screwed over by every single facet of the system |
| 1:54.4 | And I used to work closely with CLS all the time because they do such |
| 2:00.3 | Importantly go in advocacy work to defend poor people. They were in other words really key sources of mine |
| 2:06.4 | I hope you'll check out their excellent new podcast their episode with past dig guest Dorothy Roberts is especially good |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jacobin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.