Dakar

Vigilante justice: Pure Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, reviewed

20 June 2026 9:00 am

The grotesque posthumous lynching of a homosexual by a frenzied mob prompts Sarr’s protagonist to investigate the shadow world of gay life in Senegal

Beyond Timbuktu

9 September 2017 9:00 am

Every so often a monster comes along. Here’s one — but a monster of fact not fiction, over 700 pages…