Senegal: the results of 60 years of independence

Audio 48:30

From g.

to dr.

: Léopold Sedar Senghor, the President of Senegal and the President of the Council, Mamadou Dia, September 5, 1960, in the streets of Dakar.

AFP

By: Alain Foka

50 min

In 1960, Senegal was one of 17 African countries to gain access to “Mom sa reew” (independence, in Wolof).

What political, economic, social and cultural assessments can we draw from these sixty years of independence?

Publicity

With our guests

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, executive director of the monthly Intelligence Magazine and founding president of the Intelligences Citoyens club

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, artist

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, Vice-President and Regional Director of Kosmos Energy, former Managing Director of Citi in Senegal, then Managing Director of Citibank Côte d'Ivoire SA in charge of West and Central Africa

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, engineer-architect.

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