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French foreign lesions: An overdue reckoning
Colonial atrocities are finally catching up to Paris, and Emmanuel Macron’s government has not put up a fight
The Portfolio: ‘neuf-3’ — a public art project in Saint-Denis, Paris
The ‘neuf-3’ art project, curated by Riason Naidoo, aims to pay tribute to the African communities of Saint-Denis — and of Paris
Iconic political figure, Mamadou Dia, dies
First prime minister and key politician, Mamadou Dia, was at the centre of Senegal’s first major post-independence crisis in 1962.
Key Senegalese politician, Mamadou Dia, dies
The first prime minister of Senegal, Mamadou Dia, who has died aged 98, was at the centre of his country’s first major post-independence crisis.
Fake Prada fuels Senegal’s Muslim brotherhood
For Senegalese street sellers from Manhattan to the Vatican, selling fake Prada purses and Gucci sunglasses is as much a question of religious devotion as of making a quick buck.…