West African culture takes center stage at Dakar’s ECOFEST 2025
ECOFEST 2025 in Dakar, Senegal focuses on how culture fosters resilience amid political crises in West Africa.
![Fatima Jobe, known as “Fatou,” poses in her Dakar shop on 14 November 2025. [Nicolas Remene/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1764970091.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
ECOFEST 2025 in Dakar, Senegal focuses on how culture fosters resilience amid political crises in West Africa.
![Fatima Jobe, known as “Fatou,” poses in her Dakar shop on 14 November 2025. [Nicolas Remene/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1764970091.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![Ousmane Sonko speaks after he was appointed prime minister by Senegal's newly-elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in Dakar, Senegal [File: Abdou Karim Ndoye/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-03T054833Z_161381706_RC2LY6AILHMX_RTRMADP_3_SENEGAL-POLITICS-1712129356.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)




![Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US on Sept. 24, 2025. [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image-1758756135.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

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