Senegal’s Elites Wanted to Trash Democracy. Voters Didn’t.

Last Thursday night, cheers bellowed across Senegal’s capital Dakar. A few blocks from where I stood in the city’s posh Plateau district, Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye left the prison they had been held in for months. Since 2017, Sonko has led a powerful opposition movement that has railed against current president Macky Sall and the [...]