WHO WE ARE

“A third place about facing a critical time”

The Group for Action and Critical Study (GAEC-Africa) is:

– An association of academics, initially composed of teacher-researchers (PER) of the UFR of Civilizations Religions, Arts and Communication (CRAC), Letters and Humanities (LSH), students, members of the administrative and technical staff (PAT) of the University Gaston Berger, people from the neighbourhoods, volunteers, professionals, thinkers, social activists, all concerned with contributing to the sensitization and mobilization for the rights of individuals and vulnerable groups, victims of historical, cultural, polit (….)

CUPAV

“Building The Coming African Popular University”

Manifesto

Caught in the traps of unfinished decolonizations bearing mechanisms for the reproduction of violence both against the other and against oneself, contemporary African societies have not ceased to be the home of multiple, diverse and contradictory simultaneous trajectories that are (….)

Seminars

The Gaec-Africa seminars were established in 2020, with the objective of:

Reverse the trend of the general decrease in student academic standards, in particular by offering complimentary training rooted in critical theory, Pan-africanism, decolonial thought, and the American black radical (….)

NDAR DEMB AK TEY

research and archiving mission

Introductory notes by Abdourahmane Seck

It is about rewriting the history of Saint-Louis both as a dynamic oral history museum project and as a pedagogical program on the contemporaneities of the Souths. It therefore means writing the world-history specifically from a place and, to a large extent, with and from the stories, objects, memories, struggles and forgettings of its inhabitants. It means, here from Saint-Louis, writing a world-history from
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BLACK TERAANGA BLOC

INTERVENTIONS/STRAIGHT ACTIONS

Introductory notes by Abdourahmane Seck

Over the last few years, Senegalese social, cultural and political events have been marked by a recurrent pattern of verbal, physical and psychological violence that suggests a public space accommodating mentalities and behaviors that harm the social bond and physical integrity of citizens and foreign guests living in our communities. The Senegalese public space, in spite of a sometimes
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