Senegal

Cyril Ramaphosa and other leaders picked an inopportune moment to push for a truce.

The defenses that made the country unique are falling one by one—leaving political discontent and spiritual voids exposed to al Qaeda.

A constitutional coup in a country that has long been a beacon for freedom would encourage authoritarians across the continent.

Young people across the continent have been hit hard by the pandemic, lockdowns, and economic stagnation—but their protests have largely been ignored by elderly elites.

A country seen as a bulwark of stability faces mass unrest.

Protests over the arrest of a popular opposition leader highlight the decline in what was a beacon of democracy in West Africa.

The French Senegalese writer David Diop revises the modernist archetype with a protagonist long excluded from World War I literature: the African soldier on the front lines.

In countries around the world, progress defies the backlash.

Migrants who fail to reach Europe face humiliation, isolation, and impoverishment at home.

Tobias Zielony and Anna Badkhen on the displaced, the Global South, and what Africans misunderstand about their peers who’ve made it to Germany.

Even African 'success stories' like Senegal want their citizens to seek their fortune in Europe, because it's easier than giving them a chance at home.

2015 Global Thinker Fabrice Monteiro discusses how plastic-bag couture can teach a generation to respect its environment.

In a world where 1 in 7 people are displaced, your kindness is just condescension.