I have been taken by my research and teaching on food policy issues so far this year, so I haven’t had a chance to write anything about the conflict in Mali, where I have done some work which was cut tragically short by the March 2012 coup d’\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n
The Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, however, has a very nice collection of resources on the current conflict in Mali, which seems to be updated very frequently and which you can find here<\/a>.<\/p>\n It includes everything from recent scholarship on Mali (including a link to my colleague Bruce Hall<\/a>‘s most recent book, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960<\/em><\/a>), Wikipedia pages, fact sheets, congressional hearings, blogs, media and journalism, background, statistics, as well as how to help.<\/p>\n Two sources which the above does not include and which are my personal favorites on the current conflict in Mali, however, are Tommy Miles<\/a>‘ and Alex Thurston<\/a>‘s Twitter feeds. Alex also has a blog called Sahel Blog<\/a>. And in terms of scholarly research, Notre Dame’s Jaimie Bleck, a fellow Cornell alum, is doing really cool work<\/a> on Malian politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been taken by my research and teaching on food policy issues so far this year, so I haven’t had a chance to write…<\/p>\n