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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 …

Viewers: 50,001 By Spy Uganda  How does a revolution lose its soul so quickly? How does a promise born from sacrifice, imprisonment, and popular resistance fracture almost overnight into the familiar tragedy that has haunted post-colonial Africa for decades? Across Senegal, a deep sense of anxiety has been building for months. Observers of African sovereignty watched carefully as tensions …