An African dilemma every Monday.
Analysis 48 hours later.
The Baobab of choices is an editorial series of moral, political, social and existential reflection. Every week, BAOBIZZ publishesan African dilemma without a perfect solution: a limited situation, a difficult arbitration, a fracture of consciousness. Then, forty-eight hours later, comes the analysis.
Here, it is not a question of choosing between good and evil, but of facing situations oreach option has a lossmoral cost, renunciation or betrayal.
Monday:A new dilemma.
Wednesday:the corresponding analysis.
The current dilemma
– Le barrage ou les villages
Tu es chef traditionnel d’un territoire de trois mille âmes en Guinée. L’État, soutenu par un consortium international, veut construire un barrage hydroélectrique qui électrifiera quatre régions et alimentera en eau potable deux millions de personnes.Mais le projet implique la submersion de quatre villages ancestraux — dont le tien — et le déplacement de douze ...
Archives(18 episodes)
– The healer or doctor
Ton fils de sept ans est gravement malade. Les médecins de l’hôpital régional ont diagnostiqué une appendicite aiguë avec risque de péritonite. Ils préconisent une opération chirurgicale dans les douze heures. Le risque opératoire est réel, l’anesthésie incertaine, et l’hôpital manque de matériel. Mais ta femme — et toute sa famille — s’y oppose. Votre ...
– The cursed legacy
Your father just died. He was respected in the neighborhood, generous with neighbours, pillar of the mosque. But by settling his estate, you discover the real origin of his fortune: the embezzlement of public funds carried out over twenty years within a national government. Millions stolen from the state. To hospitals without...
– The embarrassing witness
You're a taxi driver in Dakar. One night in December, around midnight, you see a scene that ices your blood: the son of the Minister of the Interior fatally strikes a travelling salesman in an alley of the Medina. You're the only witness. The victim died instantly. The police...
— Numbers or earth, you have to choose
When financial transparency threatens those it should protect, the truth becomes a slow poison.
— Staying in Dakar or returning to build in the village
Your salary feeds your family, but your absence slowly devours it from within.
— The post that can save or destroy
When your truth can trigger a fire that no one can extinguish.
— Your skin or career: no choice
When successful professionally demands betraying the skin in which you were born.
— Numbers or silence: accountant in grey zone
When your own accounting records become the weapon that can free or destroy your country.
— Staying in Dakar or returning to build in the village
Your salary feeds your family, but your absence slowly devours it from within.
The Baobab of Choice #9 — The tweet or the silence: talking under the storm
When truth threatens order and silence protects injustice, who are you really?
The Baobab of Choice #8 — Your skin or career: no choice
When successful professionally demands betraying the color you've always worn.
The Baobab of Choices #7 — Ore or memory
When the richness of the basement threatens to engulf the truth of the ancestors.
The Baobab of Choices #6 — Stay in Dakar or go back to save yours
You left Senegal to survive, but it's your absence that kills slowly.
The Baobab of Choice #5 — Tweet or silence: talking kills too
When denouncing a regime on networks can save or condemn an entire movement.
The Baobab of Choices #4 — Cream or mirror: choose your face
When protecting your daughter makes you betray your own skin.
The Baobab of Choices #3 — Accounting records or open mine
When transparency threatens employment, does truth still have a bearable price?
Baobab des Choix #2 — Your sister or your city: who are you saving?
When to protect your own people, you're forced to abandon those who look like you.
The Baobab of Choice #1 — The Colonel or the Constitution: who will save the country?
When the street applauds the boots, democracy asks you to choose your side.
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