Bamako: The Sahel’s Reluctant Epicenter Where World Powers Play Musical Chairs While the City Just Tries to Charge Its Phone
Bamako, the capital whose name sounds like a late-night jazz riff but whose mornings smell of diesel, dust, and unfiltered ambition, sits on the Niger River like a card player who’s already shown his hand too many times. In the global imagination, Mali is either a red blob on the Foreign Office map or the…