What secularism in Mali?
Imam Mahmoud Dicko, August 11, 2020, during a protest rally against President IBK, in Bamako.
© Rey Byhre / REUTERS
By: Alain Foka
2 min
A country where a president cannot be elected without the support of the religious, where the latter can have a family code withdrawn, yet voted in the National Assembly, where they even chair the famous and much coveted Independent National Electoral Commission, can he consider himself a layman?
And is this notion of secularism, a colonial heritage locked in in almost all the constitutions of French-speaking African countries, applicable in Mali?
How to define the Malian model?
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With our guests:
- Dr Mady Ibrahim Kanté
, lecturer-researcher in Political Science at the Faculty of Administrative and Political Sciences of Bamako, researcher at the Timbuktu institute
- Maître Mountaga Tall
, lawyer, former minister and former Malian deputy
- Oumarou Diarra
, imam
- Jean-François Camara
, member of the young Christians of the district of Garantiguibougou, lecturer-researcher in political science at the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako
- Dr Amadou Koné
, imam and professor at the Faculty of Sciences.
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