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In Senegal, the name is not only an administrative identity: it can still carry a social memory, implicit belonging, inherited hierarchy and sometimes an invisible boundary between individuals.
This episode questions the discrete survivals of caste systems in contemporary Senegalese society. Behind the discourses of equality, modernity and social mobility sometimes persist inherited rankings that influence marriages, family relations, symbolic belongings and social perceptions.
Podcast analyses how name, parentage, family origin and collective representation can continue to produce powerful social effects, even when modern institutions affirm legal equality between citizens.
The challenge is not to freeze Senegalese society in its legacy, but to understand how some old structures survive in more discreet forms, sometimes internalized, and how a democratic society can overcome them without denying its history.
