September 2025 – Page 4 – BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

Chaos in prime time: when news becomes a product

9 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Every evening, at 8 p.m., opens a strange collective ritual: millions of citizens settle in their sofa to attend the mass of information. On the screen, an impeccable presenter, locked smile and reassuring tone, unfolds the daily breviary: an indigestible mix of tragedies, futility and publicity. The show is...

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Anticipating the future: controlling population growth for sustainable Senegal

9 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

An accelerated demographic transition: between inertia and inequality In the early 1960s, Senegal was still a largely rural country with a population of just three million. Dakar, the capital, welcomed 400,000 souls, mainly concentrated on the Cape Verde peninsula. Sixty years later, the country was transformed. His...

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When parchment replaces know-how: rethinking the cult of graduation in Africa

9 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

In many African countries, graduation is not only a personal success: it is a family and community pride. The graduate becomes the symbol of social ascent, the one who crossed a barrier reserved for a minority. In societies where access to education is sometimes limited, each diploma is valued beyond its ...

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Re-inventing the School: The AIA as a learning engine, the teacher as a guide to meaning

8 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

An educational earthquake on the move Forget blackboards, dusty manuals, timed controls. The school we've known is moving. Not slowly. Brutally. And this earthquake has a name: artificial intelligence. It's no longer science fiction. In the United States, Europe, Asia, schools are already experimenting with a ...

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Soukeyna : a star in the towers

20 September 20258 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

My name is Soukeyna. I'm 20 years old. I live on the eighth floor of a large grey tower in a city in the northern suburbs of Paris. There's no more « Ethnic French » For a long time. They left, one by one, as if they were running from something. Only we, the children of...

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Life in balance: at the heart of the sacrificed middle class

8 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

There is, in the heart of western metropolises, a silent humanity that advances on the line. A class of men and women called "middle class" — Not because of lack of magnitude, but because they are suspended between two worlds: the one of visible ease, and the one of precarious tapie. They do not shine by...

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Will Trump kill American democracy?

7 September 20257 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Since January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump began his second term, the foundations of American democracy have been flickering with unprecedented intensity in the contemporary history of the United States. Under an apparent institutional legality, a profound and methodical upheaval of democratic balances is at work. This return to the White House doesn't look like...

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Queens without kingdom: the silent pain of women in the Senegalese family-in-law

6 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

The Senegalese tradition dictates that, after marriage, a woman joins her husband's family home. This frame, originally set as a protector, can quickly become a silent trap: much more than a dwelling, it is a theatre where invisible dramas are played, where the woman, perceived as a stranger, becomes « object of ...

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The great circus of Bichmute in Dakar: satire of a masterly course fallen from the pedestal

28 March 20265 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

A cartoon of the 2007 speech at Sheikh Anta Diop University, followed by an analysis of Western paternalism and its African reflections Presidential one-man-show Some presidential speeches go through decades, inspire, transform. Bichmute's in Dakar will remain in the annals... of involuntary comedy. Like a sketch delivered with the seriousness of a teacher in front of ...

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Tribute to Spike Lee, the burning voice of a standing people

4 September 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

There's a beat in Spike Lee's movies. A heartbeat, heavy like a Bronx drum, fast like a Brooklyn freestyle, painful like a cry that has been suffocating for too long. Spike filmed black, but not that. He films fire, struggle, tenderness, pride. He's filming the street like...

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