August 2025 – BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

Artificial intelligence and law & numeral professions: mutations, risks and opportunities

31 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Introduction For a decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has left the laboratory field to become a structuring technology for economies and professions. The legal professions (lawyers, business lawyers) and the number (accounting experts, auditors) are on the front line. Long perceived as based on human expertise that is difficult to automate, they are now shocked by ...

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My wife, her phone... and Diarra: Fable d'un foyer fissuré

3 September 202531 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

My wife was shining on Instagram. Diara shone in my life I'm a married man. Married, yes, but alone. Yes, alone, in my own house. Ironic, isn't it? My wife, she's here. Physically at least. Always dressed, fresh nails of the day, well screwed wig and hand grafted phone like a ...

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The Three Masks of the Empire – satirical fables for lucid memory and bitter laughter

31 August 202531 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A trilogy, to denounce the modern figures of neocolonialism: the Milliardaire, the White Sorcerer and the Black Scholar. Three masks, three roles, three complicitys. The Milliardaire and the Frontier "It takes arms there, but no faces here." A rich businessman, steeped in profits, was lying on the universe as a challengeless god. From Africa to the Levant, his hand is a ...

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The Giants of Black Music: a pamphlet of admiration and eternity

2 September 202530 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

There are peoples who have suffered, resisted and sublimated their wounds in art. The story of black music is that of a song that crosses the Atlantic, which is born in the cotton fields, rises in the churches, spreads in the smokey clubs of Harlem, burns on the scenes of Kingston, and ends up burning the ...

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Liberia: when utopia turned into a nightmare

30 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

On the map of Africa, Liberia occupies a separate place. Founded in the 19th century by former African-American slaves repatriated, this country could have embodied the dream of a triumphal return to Africa and reconciliation between brothers separated by the slave trade. But history has taken a completely different path: exclusion, segregation, domination of a minority ...

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Populism: a mirror to illusions or a trap for peoples?

30 August 202530 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A word that's come back everywhere For several years, a term has invaded TV sets, newspapers and political conversations: populism. Some use it as an insult, others as a standard. But what does it really cover? Behind this word, there is a reality: a mode of discourse and political action which, ...

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France and its glass ceiling: when the social elevator encounters an invisible barrier

30 August 202529 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

In France, the republican promise of equal opportunities too often encounters an invisible barrier: the glass ceiling. Heritability of the mechanisms of social reproduction of the Ancien Régime, reinforced by Parisian centralism and aggravated by racial or cultural discrimination, this phenomenon prevents brilliant talents – both from immigration and from ...

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The great mechanics of debt, myth, realities and secrets of a system that goes beyond us

9 August 202629 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A contemporary paradox Never in modern history have States been so indebted. The figures give rise to vertigo: the United States exceeds $34 trillion in federal debt; France is close to 114% of GDP; Japan flirts with 260% of GDP. Even the Gulf countries, rich in hydrocarbons and holders ...

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The Day where the Internet died: a humorous fable of a world in digital distress

29 August 202529 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Prologue: the great cosmic bug Ladies and gentlemen, Sunday influencers, insomniac Tiktokeurs, overflowing executives and retired WhatsApp-addicts, let me tell you about the only day in history when the Internet took a global RTT. It was a morning like the rest: the sun was rising, the birds were singing, and the cats... posted their videos on YouTube. ...

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Leopold II and the Congo: when a European king made an African country his private property

29 August 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A hidden history, but essential In school curricula, we often learn the main lines of colonization: the Berlin Conference, the sharing of Africa, the colonial empires built by the European powers. But there is a singular episode, both tragic and revealing, which is all too rarely evoked: that of the Congo ...

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