A Desert Empire
Mar 12, 2021
2 minutes
his stamp tells four stories. One is of its era. It was issued in 1961, at a time when African nations were breaking free from their former imperial masters. After bruising attempts to hold on to Vietnam and Algeria in the 1950s, France decided to be more flexible with the rest of its empire. Mali, a largely desert nation twice the
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