• 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.

• Dionne Searcey

The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times' Bureau Chief for West Africa.

• Katie Kilroy-Marac

Did Frantz Fanon ask Léopold Sedar Senghor for a job in 1953? And what might have happened to postcolonial psychiatry in Senegal if Senghor had given him one?

• Daivi Rodima-Taylor
• Mustapha H. Kurfi
• Fallou Ngom

Ajami is the centuries-old practice in West Africa of writing other languages using the modified Arabic script. It is also more widely dispersed than we give it credit for.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

How do queer women in Senegal navigate the simultaneous desires of same-sex intimacies, family life, societal expectations, and urban success?

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

Queer identities, widely accepted on the pitch in women's football, may be the way to challenge gender norms in some societies.

• Bamba Ndiaye

Election meddling may have sullied the reputation of Senegal as a beacon of democracy in West Africa, but a popular opposition candidate is giving hope for a new wave of Pan-Africanism in the region.

• Seynabou Diop
• Myles Cunningham
• Dylan Millson
• Katya Khalizeva

Beyond national elections, the Y’en a Marre political movement is changing Senegalese civic and political life for future generations.