• 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

Football is a Country's Elliot Ross has describes the World Cup Final, every four years, as Christmas Day for football fans, just better. The champion this time is Germany.

• 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.

• Steffan Horowitz

There is something to be said about the sheer volume of highly-anticipated films made by black filmmakers or about communities of color.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Jacques Enaudeau

Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.

• Janette Yarwood

Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?

• Zachary Rosen

Takeifa's sound is a welcome alternative to the more common mbalax music that dominates Senegal's pop music scene.

• Janette Yarwood

A campaign in Senegal wants to put public pressure on the government to follow-though on criminal investigations in order to get justice for victims of violence and torture.

• Bukola Afolayan

Pierre Thiam, a Senegalese-born chef defining African restaurant food in the United States, argues that it is insulting to categorize African cuisine into one box.

• Tom Devriendt