Africa

For many financial firms and directorates, the closing of accounts remains an intense moment when balance sheets, tax deadlines, last-minute arbitrations and high time pressure accumulate. However, beyond the regulatory production of the financial statements, the end of the financial year offers a unique opportunity: to operate a structured financial landing, allowing to anticipate the results, to secure ... Read more

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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... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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, ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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For some 20 years, the Sahel has been the scene of a silent but structuring religious transformation. In the shadow of security crises and state fragility, a Salafist-type reformist Islam progresses in capillary fashion, stifling the old balances shaped by Sufi-confronted Islam. Far from caricatures and amalgams, this dynamic is neither a shock... Read more

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Critical analysis of a disturbing but strategic issue for the future of the continent This text does not result from a morbid fascination for violence, nor from a condescending look at Africa. It responds to an intellectual and political necessity: to name the facts, to organize them, and to draw lucid lessons from them at a time when ... Read more

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In the French Antilles, the end of slavery marks a major legal break, without ever questioning the economic, land and social structures inherited from the plantation. Compensation of former masters, lack of redistribution of land, forced wage labour, intact transmission of wealth and power networks: post-slavery was built in ... Read more

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Unlike North America and Australia, profoundly reshaped by the massive influx of European populations, Africa remained a continent where colonization was almost exclusively a political, economic and administrative exploitation, and rarely a population replacement project. This singularity poses a major question: why did Africa not experience colonization? Read more

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There are figures in contemporary African history that exceed their status as politicians, activists or heads of state. They become living places of memory, incarnate consciousnesses, irreversible fractures in the imperial narrative. Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara and Steve Biko belong to this rare category of men whose physical disappearance never meant the political end. They... Read more

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