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Earlier this morning we heard of the spirit of panafricanism as espoused by Kwame Nkrumah who would have been 100 tomorrow if he'd lived, but the spirit still lives on and indeed is thriving in one corner of Senegal in particular where a new board game has been born.
Salif Tidiane Ba is a Senegalese national who has worked on awareness campaigns for a number international organisations, but has now turned his hand to designing a game called Jekaben which he hopes might breed a whole new generation of pan-Africanists across the continent.
From Dakar, the BBC's Tidiane Sy went to try out the game.
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