at the University of Dakar, the strategy of the opposition in debate

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The Senegalese opposition had called for a concert of saucepans, widely followed by students from Cheikh Anta Diop University, which is blowing a wind of degagism, a few weeks before the legislative elections.

At 5 p.m. on Thursday, on the part of the Cheikh Anta Diop University campus in Dakar dedicated to student accommodation, everything is calm and silent. The day before, Ousmane Sonko, one of the leaders of the opposition, called for a pan concert at 8 p.m. sharp. The political context is tense. Sonko gave up in extremis to order a third demonstration of protest against the invalidation of the electoral lists of the opposition coalition, Yewwi Askan Wi, for the legislative elections at the end of the month. He was at the top of the discarded list.

Ebb and flow of students in the late afternoon sun. Some gravitate to another immobile yellow dot: Princess wears a sunny yellow tank top and sells ginger-lemon drinks. Around the saleswoman, a small group is debating, leaning over a newspaper with the headline in red: “Yewwi retropedal”. In Wolof, the young people talk about militant strategy, pans and Chinese proverbs, one points to the windows of Pavilion J where socks, polo shirts and bras are drying.