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.

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