A book on Casamance sows discord in Senegal before the legislative elections

Bad timing, too sensitive subject, pretext to scratch France? The controversy surrounding the book The Idea of ​​Autonomous Casamance. Possibilities and moral debts of the colonial situation in Senegal, by historian and CNRS researcher Séverine Awenengo Dalberto, in any case continues to punctuate the race for the legislative elections on November 17.

Ce “scientific book” which is set in Casamance, a southern region of Senegal where one of the oldest rebellions in Africa remains, is the “the fruit of twenty years of research, [et] examines the period 1875-1970 through extensive public and private archival documentation as well as interviews,” according to a press release from its publisher, Karthala, cited by Seneplus and dated October 26.

That day, on the eve of the launch of the legislative electoral campaign, the dedication of the historian's book in a Dakar bookstore had just been canceled.

“Hidden intentions of France”?

The first political organization to have waved the red rag is the Alliance for the Republic (APR) of former President Macky Sall. The latter is today head of the list, from his Moroccan residence, of the Takku Wallu coalition, one of the three major political forces in