Photograph of Banzoumana Traoré, Co-ordinator of the NGO SAVAMA-DCI – the Association for the Safeguarding and Promotion of Manuscripts for the Defense of Islamic Culture – speaking at the 2^nd Colloque International des Écrivains, Journalistes et Communicateurs Traditionnels. Traoré chaired the panel at this particular event during the colloquium, which was organised by the Malian Centre and Mouvement Malivaleurs and held at Hôtel Massaley in Bamako from 29 November to 2 December 2016. The theme of this colloquium was “The rise of violent extremism as a threat to the state, social cohesion, rights and freedoms”.