Souleymane Bachir Diagne is in an ideal position to observe Donald Trump's decisions on education or his stances on Africa. The academic was born in Senegal in 1955, trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure academic institution in Paris, notably with Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida, and has been teaching philosophy at Columbia University in New York since 2008.

This measure has been promoted for a very long time by the Republican Party, which believes that the Department of Education, organized at the federal level, should be the responsibility of the states and cities in a system as decentralized as the American system. Student grants and loans, which have until now been awarded by the federal government and administered by the Ministry of Education, could now be managed by private organizations. It is still too early to see how the protests will be organized in response to these measures.

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