Casamance Crisis
Crisis & Social Movement in the context of the Casamance Conflict as seen through the eyes of The Region’s Urban young adults.
Image: View of the Casamance river at sunset at the Ancien Bac in Ziguinchor
Welcome to this website covering a research project by Sweder A. G. Breet as part of the MA African Studies at Leiden University. This website will analyse the positions of young urban adults living in a (low-intensity) conflict area, namely the Casamance Conflict (1982-present). It will guide you through different chapters covering the fieldwork in Senegal in the first three months of 2024.
Through the help of interviews, pictures and video, which have been collected by myself unless stated otherwise, this website aims to show insight into the lives of the people living in the Casamance. On each page, you can click on the profiles of the participants of this research, showing what they have to say about specific matters.
Please note that you are free to read the pages in any order you want but this website will be most coherent when starting from the beginning. At the end of each page, you will be guided to the next.
This website is also optimised for being viewed on a computer. While it is accessible on mobile devices, the layout might not align correctly on each page.
With all this being said, let’s get started!
Table of content
1.Introduction
2.About this research
3.History of the Casamance
4.Stories about the conflict
5.2024 Electoral Crisis
6.Conclusion
7.Acknowledgements