• Aude Konan

Amid a flood of Western fast fashion waste, Dakar's designers upcycle discarded clothes into bold, sustainable styles.

• Christopher J. Lee

Through Afro-futurist soundscapes blending tradition and innovation, Ibaaku’s new album, 'Joola Jazz,' reshapes Dakar’s cultural rhythm and challenges the legacy of Négritude.

• Fatoumata Bah

African postcolonial cinema serves as a mirror, revealing the limits of escape—whether through migration or personal defiance—and exposing the tensions between dreams and reality.

• Tsogo Kupa

As Africa’s first filmmakers made their unique steps in Africanizing cinema, few were as bold as Djibril Diop Mambéty who employed cinema to service his dreams.

• El Hadji Malick Ndiaye

Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye on curating one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent.

• Chérif Keïta

How a Senegalese trade unionist inspired one of the continent’s greatest filmmakers.

• Anna Wood

The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.

• Marame Gueye

Le gouvernement du plus jeune président de l'histoire du Sénégal semble déjà incarner une vision rétrograde des femmes.

• Marame Gueye

The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.

• Ayisha Osori

Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.

• Robyn d'Avignon

If the savannas of West Africa are a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it's because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.

• Florian Bobin

Fermée depuis juin 2023, l’université de Dakar est devenue le symbole de l’effondrement de la démocratie sénégalaise.

• Florian Bobin

Closed since June 2023, the University of Dakar has become a symbol of the collapse of Senegalese democracy.

• Rama Salla Dieng

What contestations over land in urban Senegal tell us about political economy in the post-colony.

• Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s directorial debut is not only a love story about two star-crossed individuals, but about the whimsical landscapes of the place where they fall in love.

• Eugénie Rokhaya Aw

In the 1970s, young left-wing activists fought clandestinely for Senegal’s democratization under Senghor’s brutal regime.

• David Tonghou Ngong

Ahead of the publication of his new book on Leopold Senghor and African political theology, the author selects books that inspired his writing process

• The Senegalese Feminist Network

In Senegal, women's bodies are weaponized as political objects in electoral battles.

• Franklin Nossiter

Although Senegal’s protests are riven with contradictions, they testify to its people’s willingness to defend their democratic rights and freedoms.

• Anna Wood

What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.