BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

In modern imperial history, it is necessary to distinguish two logics which sometimes intersect, but whose purpose is not the same. The colonization of exploitation seeks first to control resource flows (mines, plantations, trade) based on light administration and local intermediaries. Settlement settlement, however, aims at a more radical transformation: the sustainable transfer of a population from the metropolis, the establishment of stable communities, the establishment of institutions and, above all, the reconfiguration of the land and political order of the territory. This model has had its most striking expressions in the Americas and Australia, but it is also seen in other areas where the European implantation wanted to last and reproduce.

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We live in a time of great contradiction. Humanity has never had as many resources, technological tools, means of communication and capacities for collective organization. Yet, in the richest societies, phenomena that seemed to have to go backwards with progress: depression, loneliness, anxiety, existential fatigue, loss of meaning. The World Happiness Report 2026 clearly highlights this paradox: the most developed countries are not immune to ill-being, and among young people in Western countries, subjective well-being has deteriorated markedly over the past fifteen years. This observation obliges us to reopen a fundamental question: what is a developed society, if it succeeds in protecting the bodies but increasingly struggles to feed life?

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Metavers: technological mirage or the future of the Internet? — BAOBIZZ ← Back to Blog African Perspective on Global Issues BAOBIZZ About Contents Podcasts Tools Technologies · Digital · Future Technologies · 11 March 2026 · Mustapha DIENG Metavers: technological mirage or the future of the Internet? Understanding an announced revolution that delays ...

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In the shadow of today's conflicts, an implacable mechanics has reactivated. Military budgets are exploding, factories are running at full speed, algorithms are learning to kill remotely, while poverty, disease and ignorance remain the silent emergencies of billions of human beings. The war, once assumed tragedy, turned into an industrial process, a technological laboratory and a commercial showcase. This text is neither a naive pacifist manifesto nor an easy moral condemnation: it is a lucid argument against a world which, in the name of its security, seems to have lost the sense of limit, responsibility and human.

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Each international crisis, every armed conflict, every massive violation of human rights, the same vocabulary returns as an incantatory ritual: international law, international community, United Nations, peacekeeping. Yet, behind these words full of history and norms, the dominant feeling is that of profound impotence. Wars multiply, civilians pay...

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