Cultural Heritage in Mali in the Neoliberal Era

Up to 2012, Mali was a poster child of African democracy, despite multiple signs of growing dissatisfaction with the democratic experiment. Then disaster struck, bringing many of the nation''s unresolved contradictions to international attention. A military coup carved off the country''s south. A revolt by a coalition of Tuareg and extremist Islamist forces shook the north. The events, so violent ...