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A Slow Emancipation
In Slaves for Peanuts, Jori Lewis, an award-winning journalist, and writer, tells the story of how the trade in people gave way to the trade in this humble nut. Drawing on archives across six...
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Senegal and the Politics of Protest
Dr. Kelly Duke Bryant is an associate professor of history at Rowan University and a specialist of Senegal’s history. She is the author of Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate...
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Political Resistance in Senegal Through Food Sovereignty
Famara Diédhiou is the West Africa Program Officer at the Alliance for Food Security in Africa (AFSA). He is also one of the producers of a documentary feature film called The Last Seed, which was...
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Neoliberalism Sucked Senegal Dry. Now Its Democracy Is at Stake.
After the arrest of the progressive-leaning opposition leader Ousmane Sonko in Senegal, protesters and dissatisfied segments of the political left have taken to the streets. In this interview, James...
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Whose Land Is It Anyway?
Between mid-April and mid-May 2023, confrontations erupted between Senegalese political leaders, customary leaders, and the local citizens of the Lebu village of Ngor in the capital city, Dakar. The...
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Senegal’s “Unraveling”: President’s Delay of Election Is Latest in String of...
Senegal is in the midst of its worst political upheaval in decades after the president postponed this month’s election. More than 200 opposition politicians and protesters have been arrested, and the...
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Elections On, University Off
On the evening of February 11, men in uniform, some wearing helmets and carrying shields, stood guard at each of the entrances to the university professors’ residence in Dakar. Their vans surrounded...
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Senegal’s Elites Wanted to Trash Democracy. Voters Didn’t.
Last Thursday night, cheers bellowed across Senegal’s capital Dakar. A few blocks from where I stood in the city’s posh Plateau district, Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye left the prison they...
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