Ibrahima Thiam

Ibrahima Sakho Thiam, Senegal. After 2 years at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in the English Department, Ibrahima traveled to Germany to study Political science, economics, and English literature and graduated in 2010 as a PhD student on the subject: the influence of the Murid brotherhood in politics and economics in Senegal. He then joined the West African office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Dakar as a Program Officer focusing on natural resources, vulnerabilities and alternatives, and climate change.
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Community resistance to a Power Plant in Senegal

by Ibrahima Thiam A fisher community leaving in Bargny at 15km from the city of Dakar is facing the consequences of an industrialization program of the Senegalese state praised to be the way for economic emergence. The socioeconomic change and mutations resulting from the series of projects have deep impacts on the community’s livelihoods. The economy of Bargny employing more than thousand fishermen and at least one thousand women drying, and packaging […]