BAOBIZZ: An African Perspective on Global Issues

There are times when a society no longer debates: it reacts. The word is faster than thought, the emotion is more perforative than argument, and the opinion is more coercive than the law.In these sequences, the rumor becomes a political accelerator, the social networks an echo chamber, vindicts a mode of regulation, and the public leaders of anxious seismographs: they capture vibration, deduce a direction, and then attempt to align the right.

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Senegal has been going through a recurring sequence for several years, where a question of morals becomes a brutal revealing of the whole social system: the relationship between religion and the State, the place of collective emotion, the role of the media, the function of opinion leaders, political reflexes, the capacity of institutions to hold the line between public order and human dignity.

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For more than three decades, Africa has become one of the main theatres of international humanitarian action. Refugee camps, nutritional programmes, mobile clinics, food distributions, resilience projects, protection missions: the footprint of NGOs is pervasive. This presence is so long-lasting that it is no longer an exception, but a mode of ordinary crisis management ...

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Redefining growth in the modern world At the dawn of the twenty-first century, industrialized societies are confronted with a striking paradox: never in history has humanity had as much material wealth and technological innovation, yet social, ecological and psychological inequalities have never been so marked. At the center of this paradox is ...

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In the unfathomable vastness of the universe, human consciousness is discovered alone, lucid and fragile. At the intersection of science, philosophy and spirituality, this loneliness raises the greatest questions of our condition: Why are we here? Why the silence of the stars? And what about this cosmic vertigo? ...

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