Africanistan: development or jihad

Part One: Sub-Saharan Africa: The End of Euphoria: The New Threats to Africa's Stability and Growth

Programmed Demographic Explosion in the Sahel?

Marginalization and Underemployment in Rural Africa

Will Africa Skip the Industrial Development Stage?

Part Two: Fragile States at the Eye of the Storm: What Causes Fragility in Certain States?

Weak Institutions Weaken Fragile States

The Ignored Fragility of Cote d'Ivoire and its Descent into Hell: 1980-2012

Part Three: Lessons the Sahel Can Draw from Afghanistan: Is the Sahel in the Process of Turning into a New Afghanistan?

Afghanistan-Lesson One: Security Cannot be Entrusted for Long to Foreign Forces

Afghanistan-Lesson Two: Aid Agencies Cannot be Left to Do as they Please

Afghanistan-Lesson Three: In fragile States, the Priority is to Build Modern, Efficient, Sovereign Institutions

art Four: What Is to Be Done? Applying the Lessons of the West's Failure in Afghanistan to the Sahel: Part 1

Applying the Lessons of the West's Failure in Afghanistan to the Sahel: Part 2

Conclusion

Epilogue: How the World Has Changed a Lot in Some Ways and Hardly at All In Others.