In Senegal, it is the end of the popular university for civic engagement, a major meeting with the “Afrikki” platform, which brings together militant civic movements from the continent and the diasporas. Their activists met virtually face-to-face at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar to discuss “civic action in the face of the autocratic press” in Africa.
as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idrac
“When we are together, it will hurt!” Two years after the first edition, activists from across the continent gathered for three days despite the pandemic context. An important act for Aliou Sané, coordinator of the Y’en a Marre movement in Senegal: “When we see what happened in Guinea, when we see what happened in Côte d’Ivoire with the third term, when you see all the police violence in Nigeria and so on … Covid can not stop us. ”
An opportunity to discuss common themes: the issue of third terms, police repression, emigration or even exile … What lives in Dakar Ibrahima Diallo, from the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution of Guinea: “The challenge with exile is first to accept your situation, second to continue the fight.”
Indispensable commitment for women
An edition dedicated to women’s involvement in militant movements. “Social movements and resistance, it is not possible without women, it is the experience of several movements, social anchoring never happens without women,” estimates Henda Chennaoui, from the Manich Msamah campaign. in Tunisia.
In its resolutely pan-African goal, the Afrikki platform strives especially for the free movement of citizens on their continent. Two activists, the Sudanese Reem Abass and the Congolese Martial Panucci, a refugee in Burkina Faso, could not enter Senegal due to lack of visas.
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