>>17913626
>Why are random sahelian nations so affected by durka durka jihad?
Start with reading about the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s. Algeria became independent from France in the 1960s and was ruled by an authoritarian and militaristic party called the FLN (still is) which had its roots in a sort of left-wing nationalism:
https://youtu.be/OerXQjqWwh4

Then in the 1990s, there were moves to open things up, and the main opposition that rose up were Islamists who were inspired by waves of this coming out of the Middle East. Obviously there were problems with corruption and the economy, but the Islamists also appealed to the rural folks (and many people had moved to the cities over the years) with their highly socially conservative agenda. The situation radicalized and turned into a civil war because they couldn't agree to share power.

The FLN won though. It's a similar story in the Sahel except these countries are more ethnically divided and there are different tribes, and Islamism is not an ethnic ideology (religion can act like ethnicity but Islam is a univeralist religion) and the sense of nationalism is weaker in these countries than it is in Algeria. The FLN really had a nationalist origin story they could draw on. There are couple of other things I'll mention.

>>512785822
>Why are random sahelian nations so affected by durka durka jihad?
Start with reading about the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s. Algeria became independent from France in the 1960s and was ruled by an authoritarian and militaristic party called the FLN (still is) which had its roots in a sort of left-wing nationalism:
https://youtu.be/OerXQjqWwh4

Then in the 1990s, there were moves to open things up, and the main opposition that rose up were Islamists who were inspired by waves of this coming out of the Middle East. Obviously there were problems with corruption and the economy, but the Islamists also appealed to the rural folks (and many people had moved to the cities over the years) with their highly socially conservative agenda. The situation radicalized and turned into a civil war because they couldn't agree to share power.

The FLN won though. It's a similar story in the Sahel except these countries are more ethnically divided and there are different tribes, and Islamism is not an ethnic ideology (religion can act like ethnicity but Islam is a univeralist religion) and the sense of nationalism is weaker in these countries than it is in Algeria. The FLN really had a nationalist origin story they could draw on. There are couple of other things I'll mention.

>>64054935
Look at the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s. It's a largely Arab/Berber country but it's a similar story there (I'll talk about the Sahel in a following post). Algeria was ruled by the FLN, which was the revolutionary party that won independence from the French in the 1960s, and a big darling of the international left and anti-colonial movement. They aligned Algeria with the USSR. Algeria was a big deal to other thirdies back then. The PLO also modeled its own strategy after the FLN.

But a few decades later, time was running out for the FLN, which (as you can imagine) had become a corrupt clique running an authoritarian state, and which controlled resources and the military while mismanaging the economy. As the FLN moved to democratize things, an Islamist opposition grew up, which was influenced by trends emanating from the Middle East, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. They could get elected but they didn't have intentions of establishing a civil state. What they believed in was ending "decadence." Permissive culture, gender mixing, and other bad very Satanic signs of moral decline (like concerts). This got out of hand, and the Islamists and the military upped the ante into civil war. Part of the issue too is that the FLN had impoverished the countryside through their kabuki economic planning, and the population had doubled while the highly conservative rural rednecks had moved to the cities. They were a similar base for the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.

The FLN won that war, though. Part of the reason is that nationalism is pretty strong in Algeria. The regime tapped into that during the civil war and described their own soldiers as "resistance fighters" and the Islamist rebels as a foreign invasion:
https://youtu.be/OerXQjqWwh4

They run a very cautious conservative regime now. They want to balance between the conservative rurals and the younger urban people who want change (without fundamentally changing anything).