• Florian Bobin

The Senegalese state’s quest to crush the opposition has caused massive unrest throughout the country. A regime that blows on the embers fans the flames.

• William Shoki

The day after International Women’s Day, the next AIAC Talk looks at the struggle for women’s liberation on the continent. Stream it live YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Madina Thiam

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, a number of West African Muslims migrated east, settling in Sudan and Mecca, to seek refuge from European colonization.

• Jimi O. Adesina

Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.

• Boubacar Boris Diop

Les études littéraires africaines devraient donner plus d'espace aux nombreux écrivains vivant sur le continent, dans les langues africaines.

• Boubacar Boris Diop

Senegalese writer, Boubacar Boris Diop, on the problematic circuits of teaching African literature first legitimized in Europe in African universities

• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

Senegalese writer Mbougar Sarr on how we are actually informed about symbols we want to bring down, and about those we wish to commemorate.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

The Liverpool striker, Sadio Mane, carries the values of his boyhood home, Bambali, with him. But his football is a product of the European professional game.

• Tarminder Kaur

What can the Senegalese Sadio Mane’s story tell us about the marketing of dreams.

• Peter Alegi

A new documentary about Liverpool FC striker, Sadio Mane, is watchable, but suffers from the fallacy that sports and politics don’t mix.

• Khadim Ndiaye
• Salian Sylla

What explains this reluctance to discuss the permanence of symbols honoring slave traders and colonialists in the public spaces in both France and its former colonies?

• Maimouna Thior
• Adama Pouye

Islam is interpreted to establish the dominance of men, and this male supremacy is at the root of all our problems.

• Ndeye Debo Seck

Teacher, journalist, and photographer, Ndeye Seck, talks about feminism and her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system and her passion for football.

• Florian Bobin

In 1973, Senegalese activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop died in a Senegalese prison. His life helps reveal what revolutionary politics look like in a neocolonial state.

• Florian Bobin

Maisha ya mwanaharakati na msanii wa Senegal Omar Blondin Diop yatasaidia kutoa mtazamo wa jinsi siasa za kiukombozi zilivyo katika ukoloni mamboleo.

• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

What it means to be a man and a feminist.

• Florian Bobin

Once you've exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel
• Mame Fatou-Niang

What roles have francophone African women played in movements for pan-African liberation, historically and now?

• Ruth Bush

Rama Salla Dieng talks with a British literature scholar on literary activism in French.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

There is a disconcerting resemblance between how some Senegalese talk about homosexuality and how they discuss COVID-19.