September 2025 | BAOBIZEZ

Rastafarism and Reggae: a universal culture of resistance and hope

24 September 202523 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Rastafarism and reggae music are not mere artistic or spiritual expressions from Jamaica. They embody one of the most powerful cultural responses of oppressed peoples to injustice, racism and exclusion. This movement, born in the underprivileged neighbourhoods of Kingston in the 1930s, has transformed a local experience of suffering ...

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Colonial psyche and extreme violence – Frantz Fanon's posthumous gaze on the Rwandan genocide

10 November 202523 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Intellectual fiction: Frantz Fanon's voice summoned to face the Rwandan tragedy. Frantz Fanon, who disappeared in 1961, obviously did not know the 1994 Rwandan genocide. But he left us with a thought deeply rooted in the psychoanalysis of the colonized, in the study of the mechanisms of domination and in the analysis of the psychic effects of the colonized ...

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Why is democracy struggling to settle in many countries in Africa?

24 September 202522 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Democracy in Africa remains an unfinished promise. If elections multiply and the constitutions proclaim the rule of law, reality reveals a completely different image: personalization of power, divided oppositions, fragile freedoms. Why this persistent gap between citizen aspiration and political practice? What minimum conditions must be met for ...

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Cape Verde: The archipelago born of nothing become model of African democracy

8 February 202621 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

An archipelago discovered by the Portuguese Cape Verde consists of a set of ten volcanic islands and several islands in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal. Unlike most African territories, these lands were completely uninhabited when they were discovered by Portuguese navigators in the mid-15th century (circa 1456–60). ...

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Alternative truths: the great interference of the real

21 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

It is expressions that mark their time by their evocative power. The « alternative truth » Certainly belongs to this category. Appearing in contemporary political vocabulary thanks to a clumsy justification given by a close advisor to Donald Trump in 2017, it is not only a language effect: it is a ...

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Games of chance in Africa: Behind bets, gears: when the game devours society

19 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

The bright signs of casinos, the stingy advertisements of lotteries and the fulcruming rise of online bets today shape an African landscape where gambling is imposed as a mass phenomenon. Behind the promises of immediate fortune, however, are much darker realities: debt, ruined families, silent addictions, but also ...

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Senegal 2050: turning debt into projects, mobilizing diaspora differently

18 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

« Böllo Ngir Meuneul Sunu Bopp » « Gathering together to have our own means » In September 2025, the State of Senegal launched a 300 billion CFAF Public Savings Appeal (EPA) bond, open to Senegalese domestic and diaspora residents. With interest rates ranging from 6.40 % to 6.95 % and ...

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Martin Luther King and Malcolm X seen by Frantz Fanon

18 September 202518 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Two paths, the same quest for freedom They embodied two faces of the same revolt. Martin Luther King, pastor of dream and non-violence. Malcolm X, the tribune of black pride and self-defence. Two voices, sometimes opposed, but both carried by an emergency: ending racial humiliation and restoring ...

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After me, chaos: chronicle of an eternal head of state

16 October 202517 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Once upon a time, in an imaginary country that strangely resembles many others, the Republic of Kongolesia-Eternal. At his head, for more than forty-five years, he held an extraordinary figure: His Excellency President Immortel. Arriving in power in 1979 with a coup d'état presented as a « accident of history », ...

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Captain Zlorg's diary, or how I almost missed the most beautiful mistake of the Universe.

17 September 202517 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Day 4 239 877 of cosmic wandering. My reactors smell like comets, my circuits smell like dead slugs, and my morale is as dry as a carbonised silicate planet. I crossed a thousand galaxies, visited more than 8,600 planets identified by the High Council of Unnecessary Explorers, and guess what? All more welcoming than a ...

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