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In Senegal, a name is not necessarily an administrative label. It can carry social memory, inherited status, symbolic boundaries and invisible hierarchies that continues to shape relationships.
This episode explores the discreet persistence of caste-based social representations in contemporary Senegal. Beneath the language of equality, modernity and social mobility, inherited classifications may still influence marriage, family relations, social perception and sympolic belonging.
The podcast reviews how names, lineage, family origin and collective memory can continue to produce powerful social effects, even when modern institutions formally proclaim equal citizenship.
The issue is not to reduce Senegale society to its inherited structures, but to understand how old hierarchies survive in quieter forms and how a democratic society can overcome them without denying its own history.
