{"id":15966,"date":"2026-04-13T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/?p=15966"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:02:31","slug":"decolonial-coups-detat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/?p=15966","title":{"rendered":"Decolonial Coups d\u2019\u00c9tat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b>Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, Cheikh Anta Diop University , Dakar<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b>April 30, 2026<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>UM6P Campus &#8211; Benguerir<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<div id=\"ld_freakin_image_69e41dcaa56d2\" class=\"lqd-frickin-img ld_freakin_image_69e41dcaa56d2\" data-inview=\"true\" data-inview-options='{ \"delayTime\": 250, \"threshold\": 0.75 }'>\n\t<div class=\"lqd-frickin-img-inner\">\n\n\t\t<span class=\"lqd-frickin-img-bg\"><\/span><!-- \/.lqd-frickin-img-bg -->\n\t\t<div class=\"lqd-frickin-img-holder\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1414\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Affiche-image-The-World-Seen-from-Africa-Seminar-25-26-.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Affiche-image-The-World-Seen-from-Africa-Seminar-25-26-.png 1414w, https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Affiche-image-The-World-Seen-from-Africa-Seminar-25-26--212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Affiche-image-The-World-Seen-from-Africa-Seminar-25-26--724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1414px) 100vw, 1414px\" itemprop=\"image\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\t<\/div><!-- \/.lqd-frickin-img-inner -->\n<\/div><!-- \/.lqd-frickin-img -->[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">On April 30, the Center for African Studies (CAS) will host the next seminar in its 2025\/2026 \u201cThe World Seen from Africa\u201d series, with Dr. Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, a tenured lecturer in logic and analytical philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD) and an associate research scholar at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Former Head of the Philosophy Department at FASTEF, Dr. Ba is currently Director of Cultural and Scientific Activities at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">One interpretation of what is currently happening in West Africa, and more specifically in the Sahel region, is that we are witnessing the completion of the decolonial project that had been interrupted and derailed by the maneuvers of the architects of Fran\u00e7afrique. The coups d&#8217;\u00e9tat that gave rise to the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) would therefore be a Hegelian \u201ctrick of history\u201d to break free from the colonialism that keeps Africa in a world system that is essentially antithetical to the needs of its population. This interpretation is reinforced by the observation that, while Fanon asserts that decolonization is an essentially violent process, the decolonizations of the 1960s took place relatively smoothly. Smoothly, that is, in a way that maintained the privileges of a transnational ruling class. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e41dcaa58f1\" data-id=\"69e41dcaa58f1\" data-height=\"50\" data-height-mobile=\"50\" data-height-tab=\"50\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.um6p.ma\/forms\/untitled-forcas-visiting-program-audience-research-ethnography-and-theories-of-communication-m-XM.qQg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-solid btn-hover-txt-switch btn-hover-txt-switch-y btn-md circle border-thick btn-has-label ld_button_69e41dcaa596b\" >\n\t<span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"btn-txt\" data-text=\"To register\" data-split-text=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\t    data-split-options='{\"type\": \"chars, words\"}'>To register<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t<span class=\"btn-icon\"><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-square-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n<\/a>\n<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e41dcaa88fa\" data-id=\"69e41dcaa88fa\" data-height=\"50\" data-height-mobile=\"50\" data-height-tab=\"50\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, Cheikh Anta Diop University , Dakar April 30, 2026 UM6P Campus &#8211; Benguerir [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] On April 30, the Center for African Studies (CAS) will host the next seminar in its 2025\/2026 \u201cThe World Seen from Africa\u201d series, with Dr. Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, a tenured lecturer in logic and analytical philosophy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15968,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966\/revisions\/15968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.um6p.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}