IV.3. DESTABILIZED CROWDS SWEEP THE SAHEL

4.3. MENU: CROWDS SWEEP THE SAHEL

THROUGHOUT THE SAHEL CIVIL WARS BREAK OUT. NEW ECONOMIC FORCES WIN. STRONGER POWER CONTAINS THEM 

Charismatic leaders, commercial producers, long-distance traders and destabilized crowds establish theocracies.

Turmoil like that of Djimini takes place in much of the light green zone.

In brief 

• Change ripples down from the Saharan fringe

• An explorer is taken for the messiah   

• "Everywhere the humble show the masters their teeth"   

• A theocracy amps up growth...

•  Then contains it

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4.3.1. 

Change ripples down from the Saharan fringe