Illicit Sahel Economy

The Sahel has one of the most consequential informal economies on the continent and one of the least documented. Arms move across borders through the same network that carries gold, fuel, and people. Smuggling networks predate the post-colonial states in which they now operate.

Volume 1 pulls those fragments into a single searchable record, structured as topical tables on various facets of the Sahel's shadow world so that the spatial and economic logic of the illicit Sahel economy can be studied across sources rather than one source at a time.