Senegal: Abdoulaye Bathily, former Marxist leader, releases his autobiography “Passion for freedom”

Published on : 26/08/2022 – 06:44

Cover of the book “Passion for Freedom” by Senegalese Marxist leader Abdoulaye Bathily. © African Presence edition

With “Passion of freedom” published by Présence africaine, the Senegalese politician Abdoulaye Bathily publishes a combat book. In this autobiography, the former Marxist leader of the Democratic League recounts his fifty years of struggle and reveals in particular the backstage of Abdoulaye Wade’s victory in the presidential election of 2000. For the historian and former Minister of State Abdoulaye Bathily, this democratic alternation of March 19, 2000 is a more important political event than the independence of April 4, 1960. Online from Dakar, he explains why at the microphone of Christophe Boisbouvier.