Journeying with Nomads

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 6, 2015

Anna Badkhen, a journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Republic and Foreign Policy, and author of Walking with Abel: Journeys With the Nomads of the African Savannah (Riverhead Books, 2015), talks about her travels with the Fulani people of Mali, the challenges they face from modern farming and global warming, to the threat that displacement will lead more to join up with jihadist groups.

→ Event: Anna Badkhen will join and editor Christopher Beha in conversation today at 7:00pm at Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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