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Once a ‘democratic beacon’ in West Africa, Senegal makes a homophobic leap into the past Senegal, once considered the “democratic beacon” of West Africa and the first signatory to the International Criminal Court, is now using the state apparatus to legally persecute its own citizens, adopting a rhetoric of identity-based isolationism similar to that of authoritarian regimes. Below, a community …

Once a ‘democratic beacon’ in West Africa, Senegal makes a homophobic leap into the pastSenegal, once considered the “democratic beacon” of West Africa and the first signatory to the International Criminal Court, is now using the state apparatus to legally persecute its own citizens, adopting a rhetoric of identity-based isolationism similar to that of authoritarian regimes.Below, a community activist speaks …