POLITICAL HISTORY OF SENEGAL

As part of a program of ideological training for its members, the leadership of the "Front National de Salut Public/MOM SA REW" party asked me to prepare a course on the political history of Senegal for its militants. I responded favorably to this request, with the immense pleasure of having, in so doing, to open and lead a debate on the politics of our country through the different ages that have succeeded one another, feeding off one another up to the political landscape that Senegal offers us at the start of the 21st century. To understand the ins and outs of politics as it manifests itself today, I propose to go back in time as far as possible to unearth the roots that have grown through the centuries to give rise to the tree that is Senegal today, in this West Africa evolving in a world that has become a global village. In other words, we're going to try to understand the present by questioning the most distant past possible. To understand and explain the dynamics of the historical process that gave rise to the Senegal of today.