The most exciting moment in its own way of the World Social Forum in Dakar broke out around 16:00 local Thursday, February 10, while the assembly of the peoples of the Maghreb intervention of an Egyptian boy, who arrived in Senegal stunned after 14 days of continuous presence in square in Cairo. In the days before the focus had been alerted by small processions sometimes walked the streets calling for the end of the campus for nearly three decades of dictatorship backed by the West.
But Thursday afternoon, a sudden tamtam multiple of applause, cries of joy, voices concitante revenue in classrooms and tents in between ringing phones has spread among the thousands of people present the news of the fall of Mubarak. After a few hours, between the disappointment of all, the news turned out to be unfounded temporarily, but the event long awaited and slings on the TV screens the next day, during the conclusion of the Forum.
And it was an explosion. One of the major merits of the Forum was that it put on the table, even in the wake of the events in Tunisia and Egypt, the urgency of substantial democratization in Africa, to overcome corruption, authoritarianism, waste, cronyism The shortage of essential goods and services, the sale of land and resources, the ecological crisis.
Now, in Egypt as mentioned in Tunisia, the transition towards a full democratic system is possible, while the political wilderness in the Arab world has been hit by raging waves. As for Black Africa, the Forum has facilitated the reconstruction of a political link between the African diaspora and local opponents.
Here the struggle for democracy takes on a social rather than directly political content, and when passing through the initiative of women, local communities, young people without a future of great cities, rather than by the action of parties and movements. And here you can hope for. There is, in fact, a protagonist of the new African generations that we can touch.
If three levels - the historical bloc consisting of the oppressed peoples, ethnic and cultural realities that are recognized in their countries with democratic institutions the ability to mix opposites without irreparable religious cultures - converge in a direction concordant, you can open, as was in Latin America, a break with the dependence on U.S.
and colonial history. There is an ideological youth free from the past, very pragmatic, hostile to corruption and lack of democracy. For this use the network and spread the word to recognize, to organize. In the city of Senegal is not a public place relevant for students - from university classrooms to libraries, nightspots and bars - that is not WI-FI.
I seem to perceive a phase change, which could be suppressed, but that has entered into a widespread popular sentiment and brought here from all over Africa in a caravan of buses and trucks loaded with hundreds of women, young men and simple, while of different colors, clothing, religions and languages.
Maybe that's why Wade, illiberal and authoritarian president of Senegal, has in fact boycotted the course of the World Social Forum. When the entire organization had booked the university, and students had requested the suspension of classes to meet the participants at the WSF, the Chancellor suddenly replaced with one of his men.
This has kept the schedule of classes, has forced the assembly to be held outdoors in tents, without microphones, and availability of translations, leading and promoting a disorganization that could not be recovered in time close the last week before the inauguration. Obviously, a power corrupt and obscurantist tried to prevent the occasion of the Forum gave rise to protests and uprisings of the local student world.
Until when? And if not now when, even with a hundred squares in Italy? 
But Thursday afternoon, a sudden tamtam multiple of applause, cries of joy, voices concitante revenue in classrooms and tents in between ringing phones has spread among the thousands of people present the news of the fall of Mubarak. After a few hours, between the disappointment of all, the news turned out to be unfounded temporarily, but the event long awaited and slings on the TV screens the next day, during the conclusion of the Forum.
And it was an explosion. One of the major merits of the Forum was that it put on the table, even in the wake of the events in Tunisia and Egypt, the urgency of substantial democratization in Africa, to overcome corruption, authoritarianism, waste, cronyism The shortage of essential goods and services, the sale of land and resources, the ecological crisis.
Now, in Egypt as mentioned in Tunisia, the transition towards a full democratic system is possible, while the political wilderness in the Arab world has been hit by raging waves. As for Black Africa, the Forum has facilitated the reconstruction of a political link between the African diaspora and local opponents.
Here the struggle for democracy takes on a social rather than directly political content, and when passing through the initiative of women, local communities, young people without a future of great cities, rather than by the action of parties and movements. And here you can hope for. There is, in fact, a protagonist of the new African generations that we can touch.
If three levels - the historical bloc consisting of the oppressed peoples, ethnic and cultural realities that are recognized in their countries with democratic institutions the ability to mix opposites without irreparable religious cultures - converge in a direction concordant, you can open, as was in Latin America, a break with the dependence on U.S.
and colonial history. There is an ideological youth free from the past, very pragmatic, hostile to corruption and lack of democracy. For this use the network and spread the word to recognize, to organize. In the city of Senegal is not a public place relevant for students - from university classrooms to libraries, nightspots and bars - that is not WI-FI.
I seem to perceive a phase change, which could be suppressed, but that has entered into a widespread popular sentiment and brought here from all over Africa in a caravan of buses and trucks loaded with hundreds of women, young men and simple, while of different colors, clothing, religions and languages.
Maybe that's why Wade, illiberal and authoritarian president of Senegal, has in fact boycotted the course of the World Social Forum. When the entire organization had booked the university, and students had requested the suspension of classes to meet the participants at the WSF, the Chancellor suddenly replaced with one of his men.
This has kept the schedule of classes, has forced the assembly to be held outdoors in tents, without microphones, and availability of translations, leading and promoting a disorganization that could not be recovered in time close the last week before the inauguration. Obviously, a power corrupt and obscurantist tried to prevent the occasion of the Forum gave rise to protests and uprisings of the local student world.
Until when? And if not now when, even with a hundred squares in Italy?
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