Below are four maps of North Africa intended to illustrate issues related to terrorism. Maps compress information as all other forms of communication do. Maps express what the written word cannot not easily but are not without their limitations. Recent maps of North Africa’s geopolitics in relation to AQIM illustrate this well, as well as broader problems in Anglophone perceptions of the region.
The maps below are recent and the comments that follow them are not intended to be exhaustive evaluations, but quick impressions and thoughts. Following these are additional, general thoughts. Continue reading
