Fodé et Bouhel sont des frères jumeaux sénégalais que la vie a mis sur des chemins initiatiques différents. Fodé doit reprendre la charge spirituelle de veiller sur le Ndut du pays sérère après la mort de Ngof, le maître des initiations. Pour cela, il devra apprendre à transcender toutes les limites physiques. Sortir de son corps et devenir souffle. Bouhel part étudier en Europe. Il se retrouve à Orléans et y rencontre Ulga, une jeune étudiante polonaise. Une histoire d’amour le mène en Po...

Considerado como uno de los grandes intelectuales que mueven África, Felwine Sarr revela a través de su ensayo Afrotopía un nuevo proyecto para el continente. Según Sarr, África no tiene que alcanzar a nadie, no tiene que imitar a nadie. Necesita lograr su descolonización a través de un encuentro fecundo consigo misma. Debe abstenerse de ese infantilismo con el que las naciones se miden para ver quién ha acumulado más riquezas, aparatos tecnológicos, sensaciones fuertes, sin plantearse que...

A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first centuryIn the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent. Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer stigmatized by stereotypes or encumbered by the traumas of the past—yet unsure of the fut...

An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroadThe call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and ruminations, musical gatherings, and the everyday sights and sounds of l...

Elaborare un pensiero sul continente africano è un compito arduo perché troppo tenaci sono i luoghi comuni, i clichés e le pseudo-certezze che, come un alone di bruma, offuscano la realtà. Dopo il 1960, all'alba delle indipendenze africane, la vulgata afro-pessimista ha qualificato l'Africa come un continente partito male e alla deriva; un mostro agonizzante i cui ultimi soprassalti annunciavano l'imminente fine. Più di recente sembra nascere invece una retorica dell'euforia e dell'ottimis...

The ePaper presents A Rise in Humanity, the opening lecture of the academic year 2021–2022 delivered by Felwine Sarr at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In his lecture, Mr Sarr explains how societies need to take ownership of their present and future, and proposes paths to reengage at a collective level in order to fill them with meaning. The lecture is preceded by a think piece in which Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Graduate Institute, urges...

›Dunkler Kontinent‹, ›Elendsgebiet‹ oder ›Rohstofflager der Welt‹, noch immer denken und reden wir über Afrika in Stereotypen. Und noch immer ist der Maßstab, mit dem wir den Zustand und die Perspektive des Kontinents beurteilen, das Entwicklungsmodell des Westens, selbst wenn sich dieses weltweit als höchst zerstörerisch erwiesen hat. In seinem bahnbrechenden Manifest, das zugleich Analyse und Utopie ist, fordert Felwine Sarr eine wirkliche Entkolonialisierung Afrikas, indem es sich auf s...

非洲正透過分離與重新分配的方式進行整合　　　　在經歷後殖民時期、內戰和愛滋危機後，非洲大陸似乎終於迎來嶄新的曙光。非洲再次成為充滿創造潛力的所在，也是充滿活力的經濟增長與生產中心。非洲不再受刻板印象的汙名化，也不再被過去的創傷所束縛——儘管對未來仍不確定——非洲擁有其他選擇，而不僅僅是跟隨全球經濟已開闢的道路。　　　　本書作者費爾文・薩爾結合經濟、哲學與文化的觀點，提出「前瞻性思考」的挑戰，旨在推動非洲的自我更新和發現。作者強調非洲應該進行深刻的歷史反思，重視自身豐富的神話傳統和古老文化，並在此基礎上進行文化重塑，採用綠色科技應對氣候變遷和人口挑戰，並強調非洲大陸通過其文化傳統的混合而實現的統一，重新描繪當代非洲形象。　　本書特色　　　　探討非洲未來發展願景的重要著作　　挑戰西方的「發展」概念，提出重新思考非洲發展道路的新視角　　　　...

Mit der Veröffentlichung des von Präsident Macron beauftragten Berichtes zur Rückgabe des in französischen Museen befindlichen afrikanischen Kulturerbes entflammte im November 2018 sofort eine kontroverse Debatte, die weit über Frankreichs Grenzen hinausging und bis heute anhält. Nicht von ungefähr, zeigt die Untersuchung doch klar, dass ein großer Teil der afrikanischen Sammlungen in den ethnologischen Museen Europas gewaltvoll im Zuge des Kolonialismus oder durch die Übervorteilung der E...

In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the Af...

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time.In The Scent of the Father, Mudimbe set h...

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life mater...