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As part of our new program The Argument*, Raw Material Company invites you to a debate orchestrated by Hamidou Anne with Borso Tall, Hady Ba and Paap Seen , @RAW Material Company located in Zone B, rue sans soleil Villa 2A, On Friday the 17th of March, at 6:00pm

March 2021 - March 2023:
parallels and distortions.

In March 2021, following an affair of morals, the most serious riots in the history of Senegal occur. Deaths, scenes of looting, destruction of public and private property and a general fedupness is expressed by thousands of young people who see the way to hope for a better life being blocked.

Thousands of young people took to the streets for days to make political, social and even identity-related demands. The country is burning, the institutions are wavering and the Senegalese exception is threatened. Two years later, what remains of this vast mass movement beyond political analyses, moral postures and conceptual facilities? Have we learned any relevant lessons or has our memory been distorted by time and denial? What is the deepest reading of the events of March 2021 and what does the future hold for us one year before a presidential election with major stakes?

The Argument questions three actors of the society who followed closely these riots and who have a singular reading of them, regarding to their positions and their various personal paths.

Lecture publique d'Ibou Fall pendant la Session 2 de la RAWAcadémie, dirigée par Chimurenga © Zen Marie

* The Argument is a series of conversations around political, economic, social and ecological issues that affect contemporary African societies. It is about starting from a current event to articulate a critical dialogue between thinkers, activists and artists. The Argument's ambition is to revive the argumentative and contradictory debate around issues that are part of our daily lives. With The Argument, RAW wishes to be a space of thought and fertilization of actions in the service of the transformation of society and an instance of documentation of the epistemic shifts of our complex times. This program is implemented in collaboration with the political scientist and essayist Hamidou Anne.

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About Hady Ba

Hady Ba holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the Institut Jean Nicod and is a tenured lecturer in Logic and Analytical Philosophy at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) and Associate Research Scholar at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Dr. Ba has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University, an International Supporting Faculty at the School of Collective Intelligence of Mohamed 6 Polytechnic University in Morocco, a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Turin. He has published scientific articles in linguistics, epistemology, psychology and political philosophy.

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About Borso Tall

Borso Tall is a Senegalese journalist with a not at all linear background (as she is wont to point out). She holds a master's degree in human rights (2018), a master's degree in American and Caribbean studies (2013), a dual undergraduate degree in social work (2012) and global English (2011). Borso is the recipient of several international fellowships, including the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, an initiative of President Barack Obama in 2016. In 2017, she joined the Chevening network as an appointed fellow at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Most recently, in 2021, she joined the Washington DC-based International Women in Media Foundation (IWMF) as a reporter specializing in global health. These experiences have allowed her to build an interesting professional profile around politics, history, global health, culture, religion, human rights, education, climate change to State Coups breaking news in the Sahel. She recalls gaining much experience with stories such as on Covid 19, World War II Thiaroye Massacre, child marriage, and stories of major controversy such as the sentencing of transgender social media star in Cameroon. Her finesse in navigating across West Africa a permis à Borso de present objective opinion from locals, experts and government authorities et de contribuer à plusieurs articles en anglais, notamment avec le Washington Post, la BBC et le Guardian. Borso is a perfect bilingual in English and French and uses Wolof as a work language as well.

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About Paap Seen

Paap Seen is a journalist and media administrator. He is also an editor and editorialist at SenePlus.com. A doctoral student at the Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, his research focuses on the influences, practices and discourse of the online press. Committed to community and youth, he is co-author of Politisez-vous (117 pages), published in 2017.

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About Hamidou Anne

Hamidou Anne is a political scientist and essayist. A former student of ENA, he also has a degree in political communication from Paris. After years of writing for Le Monde, he now writes an Ideas column in the Senegalese newspaper Le Quotidien. He is co-author and author of several books: Politisez-Vous! (United Press, 2017); Panser l'Afrique qui vient (Présence Africaine, 2019); Amadou Mahtar Mbow : une vie, des combats (Vives-Voix, 2019). Also attentive to contemporary African creation, he publishes articles and reviews on the subject.

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