#The_New_Yorker’s #Jon_Lee_Anderson Goes to “#Mali”
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Where to begin with the foolishness that is Jon Lee Anderson’s recent article on Mali in the New Yorker? Maybe with my own disclosure. Before it was published, one of the magazine’s fact-checkers called me about the piece, essentially asking if one could leap from ibn Battuta’s vision of the Mali empire in the 14th-century [...]