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How Senegal decolonised diplomacy – starting with Kennedy and Senghor

How Senegal decolonised diplomacy – starting with Kennedy and Senghor

IN their fight for freedom from France, what the people of Senegal keenly understood was that securing independence would simply not be enough. True victory would be achieved by sustainable independence. Sixty-two years later, one of the most significant markers of the victory is what I call Senegal’s “de-colonised diplomacy”. Author YOHANN C. RIPERT, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Stetson University Indeed, one cannot but wonder whether the celebrated political stability of Senegal has been the result of its diplomacy or its cause. From its effortless presidential transitions to a network of embassies that rivals that of much…
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