Ibrahima Fall

Ibrahima Fall is director of studies at the School of International Commerce, Communications, and Business Techniques (ETICCA) in Dakar, Senegal.

October 2025, Volume 36, Issue 4

Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived

After a turbulent election cycle, with an incumbent leader postponing the vote and putting his thumb on the scale, voters elected a new president and, for the third time in Senegalese history, a new ruling party. How did the country keep its democracy from crumbling?