Rahmane Idrissa

Rahmane Idrissa is a senior researcher at the African Studies Center of Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Persuasion and Violence (2017) and L’Afrique pour les nuls (“Africa for Dummies,” 2015). His research concentrates on states in West Africa, modern and premodern, and related issues. (July 2023)

Sudan’s Repressed Democracy

The fighting in Khartoum, now in its third month, is the latest disaster for a democracy movement that has long resisted Sudan’s ruling regimes.

July 18, 2023

Potent Policies of Empire

The contest in Mali between the West and Russia is not a front in a new cold war but rather part of a scramble for Africa’s resources.

May 25, 2022

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

March 29, 2020

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