TITLE:
Three Historical Impacts Caused by Islamic Violence in the Sahel
AUTHORS:
Carlos Junquera Rubio
KEYWORDS:
History, Slavery, Emigration, Religion, Corruption, Dictatorships
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.15 No.3,
July
31,
2025
ABSTRACT: In this essay, I analyze three impacts caused by Islam from the 8th century to the present day. The history of this great African region narrates chapters that are darker than the skin of many of its inhabitants, which, taken together, may be the ones that have suffered the most in universal history, not just in African history. Racism based on the skin color of its populations, xenophobia for the same reason, slavery to supply the markets of Antiquity, Islamic ones, and later European ones, along with colonialism, droughts, famines, dictatorships, civil wars, and so on. This is the history of the Sahel, which, despite all its evils, stays on the map and maintains the hope that freedom will one day come, like that achieved by Francis Bok, a South Sudanese, but that is not the only example.