November 2025 – Page 2 – BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

Why does this trade impoverish rather than enrich it?

13 August 202620 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

How world trade impoverishes Senegal: an economic model to rethink – BAOBIZZ 🌳 BAOBIZEZ An African Perspective on Global Issues ← Return to home Senegal How world trade impoverishes Senegal: an economic model to rethink Mustapha DIENG • 20 November 2025 • Read 9 minutes ...

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Under the Empire of Algorithms: the contemporary dissolution of the encounter

19 November 202519 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

In a world where technologies multiply opportunities for encounter and where individuals enjoy unprecedented freedom, solitude has never been so massive. From the dissolution of traditional regulations to the influence of algorithms on desire, to the increasing codification of labour relations, our societies have transformed the encounter ...

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Black Atlantic: Tragedy of the crossing, triangular economy and European architecture of the slave trade

7 January 202618 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

History of a total system: violence, logistics, profits and inheritances. For three centuries, the Atlantic was the heart of a monstrous economic system: the slave trade, the backbone of modern Atlantic development. European ships, loaded with manufactured goods, joined the African coast to load captured human beings. They then crossed the ocean...

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Blaise Diagne, zealous collaborator or forerunner of pan-Africanism? An African story between loyalty and freedom

17 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Dakar, February 12, 1918. Under the bright sun of the port, an elegant man, lined with tricolor scarf, arrives as a hero. His name is Blaise Diagne. The first black MP in France's history once again marches the Senegalese land, invested by Georges Clemenceau with a capital mission: recruiting tens of thousands of African tirailers ...

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The great decline: when rich nations lack children and invent palliatives to loneliness

16 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

The developed world is undergoing a silent but radical transformation: depopulation. From Japan to Italy, from South Korea to Germany, the cribs are emptying as retirement homes multiply. This shift, born of a double movement, lengthening of life and collapse of births, upsets everything: pensions, markets of the ...

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#MeToo: a silent revolution and its paradoxes

15 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Sociological essay on the metamorphosis of the relationship between men and women in the age of transparency and distrust The birth of a collective cry The #MeToo movement, which has become a historical marker of gender relations, was born from a long chain of accumulated silences. Originally, in 2006, American activist Tarana Burke uses the expression « Me...

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Dyarchy at the top of the state: understanding the moment Diomaye-Sonko and thinking about Senegal's institutions of tomorrow

29 May 202614 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

Senegal has just crossed a threshold in its constitutional life. For the first time in a long time, the tension at the top of the state is not solved by informal dialogue or political compromise, but by an act of formal institutional rupture.

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When Reason Vacille: Beliefs, Obscurantism and Manipulation in Africa

13 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

When man finds himself confronted with the unknown, the inexplicable, or a reality beyond his understanding, he has an instinctive need to restore meaning where chaos reigns. This reflex, as ancient as humanity itself, goes through times, cultures and educational levels. Because in the face of unpredictable anxiety, thought ...

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Fela Anikulapo Kuti: The man who challenged tyranny with his music

12 November 202512 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

When music becomes insurrection It was a cry, a storm, an incarnate rebellion. Fela Anikulapo Kuti not only invented a musical style; He brought forth a people standing. Through his saxophone, he blew the wind of freedom in the suffocating alleys of Lagos. Where others sang to please, ...

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The shipwrecked of exile: wandering, trauma and mental distress of refugees in Europe

11 November 2025 by Moustapha DIENG

In the streets of Rome, Paris or Barcelona, one sometimes crosses these silent silhouettes with empty eyes, these men or women who seem absent in the world, walled in their suffering. Behind these faces marked by fatigue are often tragic stories: desert crossings, captivity in Libya, makeshift boats, etc.

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