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<jats:p>AcknowledgmentsPreface, by Leonardo A. VillalónIdentity and Conflict in the Sahel: Narratives on Tuareg and Fulani, by Adib Bencherif and Abdoulaye Kane1. Making Sense of Race and Violence in Mali, by Bruce Hall2. The Role of Diaspora and Social Media in Building a Transnational Fulani Identity in the Sahel, by Abdoulaye Kane3. Tuareg Nationalisms in Mali and Niger: Comparing Elite Narratives, by Adib Bencherif4. Competing Meanings of Ethnicity, Religion and Social Status Amongst Haalpulaaren (Senegal-Mauritania), by Cédric Jourde5. The Ambiguity of the Status of Women Activists within the Mnla: Overvalorization in Discourse and Gendered Reassignment in Practice, by Denia Chebli6. Who Decides Cultural "Authenticity"? Matrilineal Ancestral Heroism and Revival of the Anzad, a Tuareg Musical Instrument Re-Remembered, Appropriated, and Revitalized in Myth and Performance in Northern Niger, by Susan J. Rasmussen7. Social Media, Memory, and the Creation of Polarized Identities in Mali in Conflict, by Mirjam De Bruijn and Mamadou Togola8. "Bringing Our Children Back from the Bush": The Narrative About the Failure of Fulani Armed Self-Defense in Burkina Faso and Mali, by Tanguy Quidelleur9. In Menaka (Northern Mali), History Mobilized for Political Purposes: Stories and Storytellers on Social Media, by Charles GrémontConcluding Remarks: Narratives in the Sahel's Polycrisis, by Adib Bencherif and Abdoulaye KaneIndex</jats:p>