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Rahmane Idrissa

Rahmane Idrissa is a writer and researcher based at Leiden University’s Africa Studies Centre. He is the author of The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Persuasion and Violence, and is currently working on a history of the Songhay Empire and a novel on the Sahel’s ‘generational seasons’.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 166 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 166 padlock

Niamey Nights

Rahmane Idrissa

‘The first time I heard of generations, they were likened to the loops of a ribbon.’

Rahmane Idrissa on photography and music in the Sahel.

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