To Write the Africa World (eBook)

Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Felwine Sarr is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University

Thinking for a New Century

Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr


I


(European?) Universalism: put to the test by indigenous histories

Mamadou Diouf


Laetitia Africana: philosophy, decolonization, melancholia

Nadia Yala Kisukidi


For a truly universal universal

Souleymane Bachir Diagne


Migrant writers: builders of a balanced globalization of Africa/Europe

Benaouda Lebdai


II


For what is Africa the name?

Léonora Miano


Epistemological Impasses around the object Africa

Maurice Soudieck Dione


Reinventing African modernity!

Blondin Cissé


What is a postcolonial author?

Lydie Moudileno


III


How can one be African?

Hourya Bentouhami


Re-discovering meaning

Bonaventure Mve-Ondo


Esteem For Self:
Creating One's Own Sense/Carving Out One's Own Path

Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux


Dictionary for lovers of the African continent: two entries

Alain Mabanckou and Abdourahman Waberi


Emancipatory utopias

Françoise Vergès


IV


Martiality and death in sexual relations in Cameroon

Parfait D. Akana


Confronted with demographic challenges and technological mutations: does a good paying-job have a future in Africa?

Ndongo Samba Sylla


Healing the in-common

Abdourahmane Seck


V

Paths of the universal

Sami Tchak


Re-enchanting the world: Husserl in the post-colony

Nado Ndoye


Writing the humanities from the vantage point of Africa

Felwine Sarr


Thinking the world from the vantage point of Africa

Achille Mbembe


Notes

Index

"Questions to do with the world and its relationship with Africa have never been more urgent, and Africa is the richest and most indispensable source and location for thinking about these issues. To Write the Africa World is a rich and powerful contribution to the debate."
Fred Moten, New York University

"To Write the Africa World is a compelling and urgently necessary collection of essays centered around the present and future role of Africa in the global sphere... For scholars and writers who are interested in the future of Africa and new forms of critical inquiry and thought emerging from the continent, this volume will be essential reading."
JDDavisPoet