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Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

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Pastoralism is facing existential threat in West Africa

2025Political GeographyJournalOpen access

10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103363 Full text1 citations

Authors

8 authors across 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Olivier J. WaltherFirst authorCorresponding
Lacey Harris-Coble
Lacey Harris-Coble
Leif Brottem
Mirjam de Bruijn
Han van Dijk
Cletus Famous Nwankwo
- University of Nigeria (NG)
as printed: Cletus F. Nwankwo
Adegbola AdesoganSenior author
as printed: Adegbola T. Adesogan

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Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecologylevel 3 · 1.00

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openalexseen September 9, 2026
2025 · Political Geography · 1 citations
https://openalex.org/W4410910100

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