1968 uprising in Senegal
The 1968 Senegal uprising was a nationwide revolutionary uprising that broke out after strikes led by young students in Dakar against a proposed scholarship law in universities and high schools turned into an anti-ruling class protest movement that led to a full-scale protest movement nationwide and large-scale violence and chaotic scenes in popular demonstrations. Looting and riots was witnessed during national protests and civil disobedience movement across the nation.