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• Senegal

  Tension in Senegal as regime faces elections

  7 July 2022, by MARTIAL Paul

  While Senegal’s opposition won the municipal elections in January 2022, taking control of several major cities, including the capital Dakar, incumbent president Macky Sall is now trying to prevent the opposition repeating its electoral success in the parliamentary elections. A showdown being (...)

• Senegal

  Senegal Uprising: End impunity for Macky Sall’s regime

  11 March 2021, by ABSA Moussa Sene, DIOP Boubacar Boris

  As large protests have rocked Senegal, the government has used live fire and militias to crush the movement. A collective of Senegalese artists and academics calls for President Macky Sall to be held accountable for his crimes.
  Since the arrest of leading opposition politician Ousmane Sonko (...)

• Senegal

  Poetic Injustice: The Senghor Myth and Senegal’s Independence

  5 May 2020, by BOBIN Florian

  The mythification of ‘poet-president’ Léopold Sédar Senghor has blurred our understanding of his real legacy. Recalling that he was both a poet and a president is a fact, but associating both, while refusing to recognize the authoritarianism he displayed, Florian Bobin argues, creates a dangerous (...)

• Senegal

  Omar Blondin Diop: Seeking Revolution in Senegal

  18 March 2020, by BOBIN Florian

  For nearly fifty years, one figure has embodied revolutionary politics in Senegal: Omar Blondin Diop, a young activist and artist who died in 1973 while imprisoned at Gorée. Our understanding of liberation movements in Africa tends to focus on struggles in colonial settings, yet Florian Bobin (...)

• Senegal

  “Macky Sall has forgotten us,” say Senegal’s landmine victims

  9 April 2019, by FASANO Stefano

  On 24 February Macky Sall won a resounding victory in the Senegalese presidential elections. He was re-elected for a second term in office with 58 per cent of the vote thanks to an electoral campaign that shone a spotlight on the massive infrastructure projects completed during his first term : (...)

• Senegal

  Senegal’s rappers continue to ‘cry from the heart’ for a more just society

  13 February 2018, by MAMPILLY Zachariah

  American musicians were once integral to political activism. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is recognised as a seminal moment in American history and a triumph for nonviolent resistance. Harry Belafonte, then a 36-year-old superstar of music, television and film, was at the (...)

• Women (Senegal)

  Senegal: The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation

  1 March 2001, by BRENNER Mark

  IN JANUARY, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women — approximately twenty percent of the female population — were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
  In (...)