As a new wind blows across our country, and a generational transition takes place, the Senegalese nation faces a number of challenges, each as important as the next. Challenges we intend to meet by accompanying each stage of this process through Fridays@RAW. Programs that will serve as a sounding board for current events, and enable us to invest in the new fields of action open to us in the years to come.

RAW Material company has long been an active space, open to uncomfortable conversations, whether through artistic practices, research and the updating of archives retracing similar elements of our history...

It is therefore in a spirit of continuity and commitment that we invite political players, activists, artists and researchers to debate current political events as part of The Argument* program, this Friday, March 29th 2024 at 5:00 pm @RAW Material Company located in Zone B, rue sans soleil Villa 2A. This debate will be followed by a congenial ndogou during which our exchanges will be allowed to unfold.

R/Evolution: Democracy calls!**

Just a few days after the presidential elections on March 29, there is renewed hope. The vast majority of the Senegalese people have exercised their civic duty and answered the call of democracy. After several years of struggle to re-establish this long-awaited process and all that it entails. The motus operandi has not changed! For those who respect institutions, the people respond through the ballot box. And that's what happened on March 24, 2024 in Senegal and the Diaspora. In this panel with Oumy Régina Sambou, Borso Tall, Mouhamed Moriba Cissokho, moderated by Thierno Souleymane Diop Niang, we will discuss the crucial moments that have taken place in recent months, notably the postponement of the February 25 elections and all the uncertainty that ensued. The conversation will deconstruct, analyze and confront the repercussions that these various forms of transgression have had on the country's economic, social and political situation.

Pressing questions will be addressed, notably what remains today of the amnesty bill presented by the Head of State and enacted by the majority of the National Assembly. This raises a number of questions about respect for the rule of law, as well as the ethical implications of this bill in view of the many lives lost.

Picture: Inked finger of Senegalese voter, 24 February 2019 © Aldi Diasse