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  • Jan 27, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Florian Bobin |Dan Moshenberg

    From the world’s biggest music stages, which she toured for over two decades, to the severity of the Italian and Belgian prisons, Malian singer Rokia Traoré has seen her world collapse. After spending over six months in detention between Rome and Brussels, she was finally released on January 22.

  • Jan 27, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Florian Bobin

    Des plus grandes scènes musicales du monde, qu’elle a sillonnées pendant plus de deux décennies, à l’austérité des prisons italiennes et belges, la chanteuse malienne Rokia Traoré a vu son monde s’effondrer. Après plus de six mois en détention entre Rome et Bruxelles, elle a Des plus grandes scènes musicales du monde, qu’elle a sillonnées pendant plus de deux décennies, à l’austérité des prisons italiennes et belges, la chanteuse malienne Rokia Traoré a vu son monde s’effondrer.

  • Apr 3, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Florian Bobin |William Shoki

    Senegal has long been considered the jewel of electoral democracy in West Africa, an example of steady exchange of power and no military coups. However, on March 24 the people executed a coup of sorts against the establishment. The election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye resembles a coup in many ways. For one, he is unknown, has no experience governing, and was a political prisoner barely two weeks before the elections.

  • Mar 21, 2024 | survie.org | Florian Bobin

    Le 18 mars 2021, dix jours après des manifestations populaires qui ont embrasé le Sénégal, le collectif de graffeurs sénégalais Radikal Bomb Shot (RBS) dévoilait à Dakar une fresque hommage aux combattants de la libération noire à travers le monde. Omar Blondin Diop y est dépeint en train de lire l’ouvrage Africa Unite ! de l’historien Amzat Boukari-Yabara. La mort d’Omar Blondin Diop en détention constitue un épisode tragique d’une longue série de violences menées par l’État du Sénégal.

  • Mar 12, 2024 | links.org.au | Florian Bobin |Leo Zeilig

    First published at ROAPE. ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig interviews researcher, writer and activist Florian Bobin on the deepening crisis in Senegal. Bobin describes the repression and bloodshed of the last few years, and the efforts to unseat the president. He analyses the potential for a radical left alternative emerging in the country, based on the “deep, systemic re-foundation” of society and its institutions.

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