The Dying Sahara

Jeremy Keenan is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has written several books including The Dark Sahara (2009), in which he exposed collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating ‘false flag’ terrorism to justify US intervention in the Saharan region. Keenan, who is considered the West’s most knowledgeable source on the Tuareg and southern Saharan culture, is commended for examining so critically how the US Empire exploits regional events to justify military expansion. In the twenty chapters of the book, Keenan’s chillingly detailed and documented research shows that the US and its new combatant, Africa Command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of Western Europe. One important purpose for writing The Dying Sahara is to document how US foreign policy since 9/11, through its Global War on Terror (GWOT), has led to the worst and most prolonged human catastrophe that this part of Africa has yet experienced. And it is likely to get much worse.