youth have often been at the forefront of political change in Senegal, dating at least as far back as the 1914 election of Blaise Diagne as Senegal’s representative to the French National Assembly (during French colonial rule). Youth were hugely significant in the protests of 1968 in Senegal. They demanded change in 1988-89 and worked to bring it about through the Set/Setal movement. They rallied around Abdoulaye Wade when he was an opposition candidate and helped secure his victory in 2000. And many young people supported Macky Sall when he first ran for the presidency in 2012. More
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