Until the 1990s, Turkey had two images of Africa: the far distant sub-Saharan Africa, and the closer, more familiar North Africa (Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan), for which Turks had a certain nostalgia: much of it had belonged, partly or entirely, to the Ottoman empire until the last Turkish troops left Libya in 1911.
Links go back as far as 1575, when the Turkish sultan Murad III signed a defence pact with the Kanem Bornu empire (extending from northern Nigeria to Chad), to which (...)
by Alain Vicky
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