topic: Senegal

Dead Memory? (Post)Colonial Duress at the French Military Cemetery in Beirut
May 15, 2018
At a cemetery in Beirut, soldiers from the French colonial army--including the Senegalese triailleurs-- lay buried. Little is known of the...
blog
Translation Slam Spotlight on Senegal and Puerto Rico
May 9, 2015
PEN World Voices Festival’s most popular event, the "Translation Slam" took place at the historic Nuyorican Poets Café on May 8th and was...
Conversations
Confessions
September 26, 2014
Foreword Ken Bugul, Wolof for “one who is unwanted,” is the penname of Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. Born in 1947 in Ndoucoumane, Senegal, Bugul...
Reviews
The Aesthetics of Trash in African Cinema
April 4, 2014
In his new book Trash: African Cinema from Below , Kenneth W. Harrow examines trash as a notion that allows him to assume a valuable...
Reportage
Chadian dictator charged with crimes against humanity
July 2, 2013
July 2, 2013: Paramilitary troops from Senegal’s rapid intervention force surprised exiled former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré in his...
Conversations
Writing for Rwanda
October 17, 2012
Senegal’s most celebrated writer, Boubacar Boris Diop and award-winning Rwandan writer, Scholastique Mukasonga agreed to meet online for an...