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Rahmane Idrissa: Versions of the Sahara, 4 June 2026

Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara 
by Judith Scheele.
Profile, 374 pp., £12.99, July, 978 1 78816 646 1Show More
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“... of the Sahel. At more than nine million square kilometres, it is now nearly the size of Europe.Judith Scheele is cynical about desertification and uses the word with scare quotes. To her mind, it is a concept inherited from European empires by international bodies and NGOs, reducing the Sahara to a problem to be solved and subjecting those who live in ...”

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