It was 2.00am on Sunday morning when I arrived Dakar. To the ordinary Dakar dweller it was an unusual hour for hustle and bustle. But hustle and bustle it was at the Leopold Sedar Senghor international airport as thousands made the...

The days following the opening ceremony of the World Social forum were relatively calm at the Cheikh Anta Diop university of Dakar. The huge burst from civil society and NGOs experienced on the opening of the Forum naturally slowed...