January 2026 – BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

When power devours those who hold it: Psychology of power, inherited architectures and political drifts in French-speaking Africa

31 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

The argument that « power drives mad and absolute power drives absolutely mad » is often mobilized as a moral formula, almost lazy, to disqualify leaders who deviate from their promises or harden their governance once installed. Yet behind this sentence is a mechanism that is otherwise more complex, deeper, and above all more...

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Senegal: Why the real estate rush threatens our economic future

28 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

While buildings are growing at a fast pace in Dakar and other cities in Senegal, massive investment in real estate is becoming a structural phenomenon of the economy. While it offers attractive rents and attracts regional capital in search of stability, this choice of investment raises serious questions: weak creation of sustainable jobs, land speculation, etc.

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When the First World Power Makes the International Order Vacilate: The Law of the Strongest Against the Hope of a World Regulated by Law, Human Rights and a Reformed UN

26 January 202625 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Since his return to the US presidency in January 2025, Donald J. Trump has initiated a radical transformation of US foreign policy, brutally breaking the principles of multilateralism, international law and institutional cooperation that have structured international relations since 1945. Through a series of spectacular decisions: withdrawal ...

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Learning time: artificial intelligence or man's temptation without effort

22 January 202622 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Artificial intelligence is not just a technical innovation; It is a mirror tense to our civilizations. Where the printing press had multiplied access to knowledge without abolishing the effort to make a thought of it, the AI introduced a more radical break: the possibility, for the first time, of delegating not only the labour force, but ...

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When evil prays: slavery, religion and anesthesia of human consciousness

19 January 202619 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

When consciousness is silent and evil settles There is a question that goes through history like a cold blade, indifferent to centuries and civilizations: How can men inflict humiliation, pain, degradation, sometimes extermination, while maintaining an image of themselves compatible with the idea of dignity, virtue, or even of ...

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Racism: Understanding a phenomenon that crosses individuals, structures societies and shapes contemporary politics

16 January 202616 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Racism, Beyond Hate Racism is often treated as a moral pathology, an individual deviance or an archaic residue that will disappear with progress, education and modernity. This reading is not only insufficient, but misleading. Racism is not an anomaly of the social system; It is one of the modes ...

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Trump II Doctrine: strength, sovereignty and the end of liberal illusions

13 January 202613 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Donald Trump gave the New York Times a long interview from the Oval Office. Behind the profusion of sometimes provocative, sometimes repetitive, statements is a structured political doctrine, consistent in its assumed brutality: the primacy of force, the personalization of power, distrust of international norms and the explicit rejection of counter-powers deemed illegitimate. A radical conception...

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Manifesto for Africa: Against the jungle of international relations

10 January 202610 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

As international relations move dangerously towards an era dominated by the law of the strongest, Africa finds itself at the heart of a new world order governed by strategic predation. Faced with the collapse of the diplomatic principles inherited from the post-war period, the rich but vulnerable continent became the privileged target of a ruthless struggle to influence between the ...

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Transmit without dispossessing: when the dismemberment of property illuminates the unthinked of succession in Africa

7 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

In many African societies, talking about succession of his living is seen as a bad omen. To invoke the transmission of one's property is sometimes to give the impression of convoking death, defying destiny or going against a deeply rooted religious and social order. Result: Succession is rarely prepared, rarely explained, ...

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When the employee no longer serves the company but serves: the silent drift of work in Senegal

4 January 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Under the pressure of an unsustainable cost of living, overwhelming social obligations and a often failing management system, Senegal's wage relationship has been gradually distorted. In many companies and administrations, work is no longer seen as a productive contribution but as a simple point of access to financial benefits to be captured, well ...

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