He was a Senegalese intellectual, artist, and political activist who fought against France's dominance in post-independence Senegal, particularly under the leadership of Léopold Sedar Senghor. Born on September 18, 1946, in Niamey, he made history in 1966 as the first Senegalese student to gain admission to the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, a feat that Senghor himself had failed to achieve years earlier. He…

The date is the 30 of August 2024, one year since the coup in Gabon that finally got rid of the Bongo family’s reign. The world saw the buzz created by the pathetic video posted on social media by Ali Bongo, calling his friends for help. But let’s talk about the coup that started it all. On August 30, 2023, a coup in Gabon…

On a hot Monday morning of June 1957, a primary school teacher, let’s call him Mr Pierre Ferry) in a school located in the little town of Porto-Novo in Benin, was enraged with one student, his favorite student whom he nicknamed “Ngobi”. Mr Pierre, a rather nice French colonial civilizer, in his 9th year of teaching in the still colonized Benin (the country became…