Intellectual duel at cheikh anta diop university in Senegal

Dakar in the 1970s was a city of contrasts. The post-independence Sénégal had adopted Léopold Sédar Senghor’s vision of négritude, yet the campus of the University of Dakar had already become a hotbed of dissent. Behind its walls, a fierce intellectual rivalry was shaping the future of African thought.