Nathalie Yamb "The way you shout in the forest, that's the same way the echo responds to you" I see people here salivating with envy in the face of the "democratic alternation" in Senegal, and who lament like "what have we done to God to deserve all these same old people for X years". I would like to recall that the Senegalese people courageously rose up twelve years ago to impose alternation, when Abdoulaye Wade tried to serve a third term. . All his hopes were dashed by the murderous drift taken by the regime of Macky Sall, but he did not sit on his heels whining about his fate. The Senegalese have risen up again, risked their lives, and more than thirty of them have even lost their lives, several hundred bear the after-effects, more than a thousand have been imprisoned for weeks, months and years, to force the alternation. Ousmane Sonko did not whine after his defeat in 2019, he campaigned every day, from the day after the election, presenting, explaining, refining, popularizing his social project throughout the country He did not wait until he was 6 weeks away from the election to distribute t-shirts or buy votes with 2000 fcfa and a cap. He did not accuse the other opponents who did not form a coalition with him of being traitors or tribalists, but he put his enemies to work.. He did not accuse the other opponents who did not form a coalition with him of being traitors or tribalists, but he put his activists and supporters on the ground to work to convince people, to push them to register to vote and to vote. He did not rob the candidacy files of his activists to prevent them from running in the local elections.. He did not advocate a boycott of the presidential election on the pretext that if he is not a candidate, no one should be. He appointed someone else in his party to carry the project, he campaigned for him and he made him win. You celebrate tea towels and envy napkins. A Bantu wisdom says that the way you shout in the forest is the same way the echo responds to you.