September 2025 – BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

The temptation of recolonization: a threat to Africa

30 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

As Blackwater's founder, Erik Prince, openly calls for a « recolonization » The imperial spectrum reappears in a global context marked by the return of raw power relations and Donald Trump's second mandate. Fragiled by its internal contradictions but rich in coveted strategic resources, the African continent ...

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Enterprise finance explained simply to self-taught entrepreneurs

20 June 202629 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Many entrepreneurs, especially those who have learned « on the job », feel poor when they receive their balance sheet or profit and loss account at the end of the year. This confusion is normal. But understanding the financial language is vital — It is not the lack of customers that usually weakens a company, it is a mismanagement of cash, payment deadlines or working capital.

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From historical cost to AI's financial bubble: when accounting faces speculation

29 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

The balance sheets tell the story of yesterday, but the markets speculate on tomorrow's. While accounting continues to freeze assets at the price paid sometimes several decades ago, investors ignite around artificial intelligence, valuing start-ups to tens of billions before they even prove their profitability. Between caution...

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Influencers in Senegal: between ascent dream and appearance trap

28 September 202528 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Social networks have invaded our lives. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat have become showcases where everyone can stage. And in this new show society,« influencer » is queen. An envied, fantasized role that makes millions of young people dream. Beauty, style, travel, luxury life: everything seems accessible ...

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Open letter from intellectuals and progressives around the world to the American voter

28 September 202527 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

American Elector, We write from all over the world, united in the same concern and prayer. We write as we call for help, not for us alone, but for you too. Because your country is not just your country. He has become, whether you like it or not, the spine of...

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Indignity Rafles, Deportations and Markets: Trump's America Facing its Demons

27 September 202526 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

America likes to present itself as the homeland of freedoms, the country of human rights and the rule of law. But the scenes that have been repeated since Donald Trump returned to the White House remind, in many ways, of the darkest pages of contemporary history. In the streets, in court, ...

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Brazil and the myth of racial democracy: a study of systemic racism

6 February 202626 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Brazil is often presented as a mixed society, a model of multicultural harmony. The supposed fusion of European, African and indigenous heritages would have given rise to a "racial democracy" where differences in colour would hardly weigh in individual trajectories. This national narrative, popularized by intellectual Gilberto Freyre in the 20th century, has long allowed the ...

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Between black, mulatto and « Chabin » : The secret history of colour hierarchies in the West Indies

25 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

In the West Indies, skin colour remains a social and cultural marker inherited from colonization and slavery. From « mulatto » to « chabin », « quarteron » to « Capture », a whole nomenclature has shaped social relations and family alliances, until today. Let us trace the historical origin of ...

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Trump, a catalyst for a world at risk

24 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Donald Trump's second term at the White House upset the international order. His unpredictable discourses, his disregard for multilateralism and his complacency with extremes are a source of global concern. Behind the character, it is a lasting ideology – Trumpism – that threatens global stability. A speech that struck the UN in New York, ...

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When sport becomes a cry of freedom: tribute to black athletes from the American continent

24 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Run to exist Black history in the American continent is made up of deep wounds, visible and invisible chains, segregation and imposed silences. For centuries, the doors of education, politics and economics were closed to them. But in this locked world, a space sometimes opened, fragile and narrow: ...

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