Month: August 2025

The Patriarch of the streets Once upon a time, in the fast-paced urban jungle of Dakar, an old lord of bitumes. He was neither king nor marabout nor even elected municipal. No. He, his throne, was an old seat in torn skai, and his kingdom stretched from Kur Massar to Ngor. It was simply called the fast bus. ...

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Should education, the cornerstone of any development, focus on the formation of enlightened minds or meet the immediate needs of the economy? In Senegal, this debate remained latent. By maintaining, after independence, the system inherited from French colonization, strongly focused on humanities, without any significant changes, the country has produced an intellectual elite rich in ...

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In Dakar, from the first lights of the day, a discreet ballet is played in almost every popular neighborhood. Men, women, sometimes even children, come out of their homes, walk to the corner shop and come out with a small piece of buttered or tuna-filled bread, accompanied by a cup of ...

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Man at the heart of development « It is not gold mines that develop a country, but men who know how to manage them with intelligence, rigour and solidarity. » This truth, often overlooked, is yet universal. The development of a country depends not only on its natural resources, nor even on its infrastructure, but above all ...

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