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2018, Le collectif Faidherbe doit tomber announces its creation at a press conference

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In Lille, members of the Survie Nord association, challenged by the glass cube placed on Faidherbe's head and by the explanatory label likening Faidherbe's violent wars of conquest to "voyages", got in touch with other Lille associations - the Collectif Afrique, the Atelier d'histoire critique, the Front uni des immigrations et des quartiers populaires (FUIQP) - and Senegalese activists who founded the Collectif sénégalais contre la célébration Faidherbe. e.s who founded the Collectif sénégalais contre la célébration de Faidherbe. Together these associations found the Collectif Faidherbe doit tomber, presented at a conference on April 10, 2018. Its name is a direct reference to Rhodes Must Fall, and immediately places the collective's action within the global movement to challenge colonial symbols in the public space.
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In September 2017, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, heavy rains caused the statue of Faidherbe to fall and the mayor's decision to replace it was contested. In Lille, France, Quentin Carnaille's installation "Identité" focuses attention on the statue of Faidherbe, topped with a mirror cube and associated with an explanatory panel likening wars of conquest to "voyages".
2017, Faidherbe statue falls in Saint-Louis, Senegal
Rhodes Must Fall Movement
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Faidherbe doit tomber