Articles in this section

• 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 (...)