Senegal

BRILL eBooks · 2023

• Political Science
• Political Science
• Sociology

The year witnessed legislative elections with a strong opposition presence, almost resulting in parliamentary cohabitation with the presidential camp. Political tensions spilled into parliament, leading to protests and arrests due to President Macky Sall’s attempts to eliminate serious opponents to clear the way for a potential third term. In Casamance, the army continued military operations against the rebel bases of the Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC) in an attempt to establish lasting peace. Foreign policy focused on the Ukraine–Russia conflict and the Malian crisis during Macky Sall’s term as AU leader. Despite a favourable economic environment, Senegal faced challenges in governance and social services. Tragic incidents across various regions exposed weaknesses in the healthcare system, resulting in deaths, particularly among babies, due to structural issues.

Senegal

BRILL eBooks · 2022

• Geography

Senegal

2021-11-05

Education, Citizenship, and National Identity in the Sahel

Oxford University Press eBooks · 2021-12-08 · 1 citations

Abstract At independence, Sahelian states inherited educational systems rooted in the colonial French model and based on secularism or laïcité. Both during and after colonialism, these formal public educational systems found little popular appeal, and indeed often faced clear resistance at the popular level. By contrast, a parallel system of Islamic education thrived, expanded, and evolved in the region, ranging from traditional Quranic schools to more modern Franco-Arabic schools. In the 1990s, a number of factors began to call into question the viability of this bifurcated educational system. This chapter surveys the trajectory of educational systems in the Muslim societies of the Sahel, and analyzes the forces shaping new hybrid models that are emerging. It examines how reformed educational systems are evolving in ways that diverge from the historical secular model with the potential for producing new models of citizenship deeply imbued with religious identities. The chapter offers an interpretation of the longer-term implications of these changes for national identity and citizenship in a changing Sahel.

The Democratic Struggle in the Sahel

Oxford University Press eBooks · 2021-12-08 · 1 citations

Abstract The countries of the Sahel found themselves under intense domestic and international pressures to undertake political reforms in the name of democracy in the early 1990s, and indeed all of them launched efforts to do so. This chapter surveys the variations and the similarities in how the struggle to build and strengthen democratic institutions has played out in the Sahel. It examines some initial fundamental questions related to the nature of a democratic state that were raised by the transitions, before turning to a discussion of the core institutional debates that have defined the struggle. Subsequent sections discuss the political dynamics and the similarities and variations across countries in the institutions for organizing and administering elections and electoral systems; presidential term limits; the structure of legislatures; and the provisions for women’s representation.

Senegal

BRILL eBooks · 2020

• Geography

Senegal

2019-11-06

Senegalese Foreign Policy: Leadership Through Soft Power from Senghor to Sall

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 2018-01-01 · 6 citations

The retired diplomat Amadou Diop, who served under Presidents Senghor, Diouf, and Wade, has aptly described SenegalSenegal ’s strengths and weaknesses in international affairs: “When we look at Saudi Arabia, its people have wealth based largely upon petrol, ChinaChina has human capital, the US has financial capital.

Erratum to: Islam in the academic sphere in senegal: the case of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD)

Contemporary Islam · 2016-09-01

Islam in the academic sphere in senegal: the case of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD)

Contemporary Islam · 2016-06-12 · 7 citations

This paper discusses the changing socio-cultural landscape at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal. It shows how the growing influence of the religious phenomenon since the late 1970s has encouraged young students to develop an Islamic activism that tends to replace the revolutionary and secular traditions that had dominated the space since the founding of this Senegalese university in 1957. These transformations, which take the form of a “decomplexification” of religion and of a communitarisation of the academic sphere, are also a reflection of the ongoing transformations in Senegalese society marked by a citizenship in transition. This transition translates itself into a duality between a “national citizenship,” with a francophone and secular character, and a “cultural citizenship,” inspired by Islam and initially driven by an Arab-Islamic elite as it negotiates its place in the public and administrative spheres that have historically been dominated by francophone elites.