4:00 – 6:00 pm: A discussion with Bachir Souleymane Diagne, Etienne Smith, Alfred Stepan, and Alioune Badara Diop, a political scientist at Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal. Moderated by Mamadou Diouf.

6:15 – 7:30 pm: A screening of film Democracy in Dakar, which looks at the involvement of the youth and rap singers in the elections in 2007.

Co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).