BAOBIZZ – An African Perspective on Global Issues

The last revolution of knowledge: How artificial intelligence could transform the African university, upset the labour market and redefine the 21st century social contract

20 June 202620 June 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

For the first time, technology is not just replacing human physical strength. It is beginning to compete with certain intellectual capabilities that have so far been the core of many skilled trades. This border was supposed to protect the educated middle classes. Today, it is becoming increasingly blurred.

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The United States sick of its health system: Anatomy of a superpower unable to treat its population fairly

14 June 202613 June 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Imagine a country capable of sending probes to the limits of the solar system, mapping the human genome and developing vaccines in record time — But where an ordinary citizen may hesitate to call an ambulance for fear of the bill. This country exists. Its name is the United States of America.

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Senegal: The Truth of Debt – Between hidden heritage, financial sovereignty and risk of economic decline

6 June 20266 June 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

Senegal has entered an area of economic turbulence whose consequences could shape its future for the coming decade. Behind the technical terms of « government debt », « budget deficit », « IMF programme » or « structural adjustment »It is a simple reality: the ability of a state to build schools, hospitals, roads, pay its officials and protect the most vulnerable populations.

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Democracy, Development and Africa: Should we draw inspiration from the Asian model to break out of underdevelopment?

2 October 202631 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

For more than half a century, Africa has sought its path between two aspirations often presented as complementary but which in practice sometimes seem to be in tension: political democracy and economic development. The issue deserves to be discussed without taboo, but also without simplification.

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Prison America – Anatomy of punitive democracy

29 May 202629 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

There are paradoxes that resist euphemism. The nation that has proclaimed itself a universal beacon of freedom now holds more prisoners than any other country on Earth. — More than China, more than Russia, more than any authoritarian regime Washington likes to point fingers. This figure is not a statistical anomaly: it is a revelation.

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Rearming Europe, disarming peace: the continent's great strategic shift

17 May 202617 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

We are not only in a phase of « return from war » ; We are in a phase of political, budgetary, industrial and media normalization of preparation for war. It's not exactly the same thing. The first is a strategic finding: the international order is more conflicting. The second is a cultural shift: war ceases to be thought of as the ultimate failure of politics to become a plausible horizon of public action.

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Europe 2050: the continent that expelled its workers before discovering that they were working

10 May 202610 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

There are political victories whose history should be wary of even before they are celebrated. So complete, so perfect, so consistent with the slogans that brought them, that they end up looking like an autopsy. The Europe of 2050 belongs to this rare category: a continent that obtained exactly what some of its leaders had promised for thirty years, before discovering, a little late, that reality had the bad taste of not respecting the elements of language.

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Malcolm X: sharp speech, recognisable dignity

6 May 20266 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

For Malcolm, racism is not a moral accident; It is consubstantial to an economic system based on the historical exploitation of black bodies. He criticizes the strategy of gradual integration. He refuses the patience of the oppressed.

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Accused! Episode 3/3: Open letter to those who devour Africa from within

16 May 20263 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

I am not writing to flatter you or to beg you. I do not write to remind you of your duties, for you know them when they serve your communication. I don't write to you to ignore outside crimes, already too many. I am writing to tell you the other truth: that of our inner betrayals. I write to you because a continent can be looted by the stranger, but it is really on its knees only when its own sons learn to speak the language of looting with a local accent.

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Accused! Episode 2/3 - Open letter to those who have taken the world

16 May 20262 May 2026 by Moustapha DIENG

I am not writing to you to beg your gratitude or to seek your compassion. I'm not writing to move you. I am not writing to convince you: you have had centuries to understand. I'm writing you to establish the facts. I'm writing to file a brief. I'm writing to you so that language stops protecting crime. I am writing to you so that the silence, once again, is not on the side of the victors.

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