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• 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 (...)