Daniel Spikes

Dan Spikes is an independent writer whose work grows out of a lifetime spent among the world’s cultures and faiths. After graduating from Stanford University, he lived and worked for several years in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, traveled through Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Liberia, Ghana and Niger, and crossed the Sahara overland through Niger, Algeria and Tunisia. He later traveled in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Muslim regions of India.

Dan is the author of Angola and the Politics of Intervention: From Local Bush War to Chronic Crisis in Southern Africa. He has lectured on the origins of Islamic extremism at the Université Inter-Âges in Versailles, and lives in Provence, France.