About the authors

James Courtright is a researcher at Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit interested in the political economy of natural resource management and conflict dynamics in the Sahel and savannah regions of West Africa.

Dr. Kars de Bruijne is the Head of the Sahel Program and a Senior Research Fellow with the Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit. He concentrates on West Africa’s coastal states.

Photo credits

© James Courtright, Cattle at the weekly market in Buipe, Savannah Region, Ghana.