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Politics above — politics below

Tomorrow, Senegal votes in an election that French-backed president Macky Sall repeatedly delayed. The fact that the election is going ahead is a victory for young and poor Senegalese, whose protests resisted elites’ democratic backsliding.

On the electoral front, surges and splits

In defense of humanity

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The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression.

What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.

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