Dreamworlds and Nightmares: How the West Lost Africa’s Sahel
Name of applicant
Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde
Title
Senior Researcher
Institution
Danish Institute for International Studies
Amount
DKK 850,193
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
Western influence in Africa’s Sahel is crumbling as Russia and China advance. Based on two decades of fieldwork, this book reveals how failed interventions and rising anti-Western sentiment are reshaping security alliances and the global order - placing Africa at the heart of today’s turbulent geopolitics and future power shifts.