• Avenel Rolfsen

Wolof-centered television may be a beacon of hope for Senegal’s waning cinema culture.

• Philip Janzen

Today marks ten years since Aimé Césaire's death. What would he have thought about the state of the former French colonies today?

• Ndeye Debo Seck

For many young Africans, going abroad is seen as the only solution to help their parents struggling to make ends meet.

• Norbert Odero

A Kenyan scientist wonders how Senegalese found ways to blend African spirituality with Islam.

• Oumar Ba

The 24th edition of the New York African Film Festival put Senegal in the spotlight, featuring five short films from there.

• Carlos Fernandes
• Suren Pillay

Karl Marx can be useful to people fighting for social justice and who at the same time are deeply religious.

• Aïda Ndiaye

What is the death of a pregnant informal fish seller in Dakar to the suffering of sweatshop workers in Bangladesh or refugees at the borders of Europe?

• Dylan Valley
• Africa Is a Country

Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.

• Oumar Ba

Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president, is emblematic of how Abdoulaye Wade's family made the state their personal property.

• Oumar Ba

For the first time in history, a former head of an African state, Hissene Habre of Chad, will stand trial in Africa, before an internationalized tribunal. In Senegal.

• Janette Yarwood

As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.

• Africa Is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Janette Yarwood

Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is so unpopular that the PDS party of Abdoulaye Wade and Y’en a Marre - sworn enemies - agree on things.

• Africa Is a Country

When the Senegalese-American singer Akon is not claiming to provide electricity around the continent, he gives interviews. The latest, to Larry King, is a train wreck because of Akon's reactionary's views. For those in the know, this is peak Akon.

• Ricci Shryock

While there is no Wolof word for “lesbian,” there are multiple words for the practice of a woman having sex with a woman, or a man having sex with a man.

• Dan Moshenberg

The Senegalese director, Khady Sylla, made films out of the impossible and the untranslatable.

• Steffan Horowitz

Martin Scorsese digitally restores Djibril Diop Mambéty’s masterpiece Touki Bouki.

• Janette Yarwood

A new film makes the case that a combination of hip-hop, new media technology, globalization and youth energy inspired Y’en a Marre.

• Steffan Horowitz

The U.S. premiere of Alain Gomis' new film "Tey (Aujourd'hui)," starring Saul Williams.