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When I was in Mali fourteen years ago our fixer warned us that if you pick a fight with a soldier there then you pick a fight with the whole army. Wagner are probably complicit in enablement but there is a warrior ethos that predates them, which can be noble but also tragic when you consider some of the remarkable contributions West Africa makes to culture.