"This powerful, multivalent collection captures the effervescent thought and energy of the Ateliers de la pensée, offering new conceptualizations of time and history and new visions of Africa's futures."Laurent Dubois, Duke University
PrefaceAchille Mbembe and Felwine SarrIFrom Thinking Identity to Thinking African BecomingsSouleymane Bachir DiagneNotes for a Maroon Feminism.From the 'Body Double' to the Body as suchHourya BentouhamiWeaving, A Craft for Thought.Writing and Thinking in Africa, or the Knot of the World's Great NarrativeJean-Luc RaharimananaIIAfrica and the New Western Figures of Personal Status LawAbdoul Aziz DioufRethinking Islam,Or, the Oxymoron of "Secular Theocracy"Rachid Id YassineThe Impossible Meeting.A Free Interpretation of J. M. Coetzee's DisgraceHemley BoumIIICirculationsAchille MbembeOn the Return.The Political Practices of the African DiasporaNadia Yala KisukidiReopening FuturesFelwine SarrIVUn/learning.Rethinking Teaching in AfricaFrançoise VergèsThe Bewitchment of History:Mohammed Dib's Who Remembers the SeaSoraya TlatliCurrency, Sovereignty, Development.Revisiting the Question of the CFA FrancNdongo Samba SyllaVMemories of the World, Memory-WorldSéverine Kodjo-GrandvauxCum patior Africa: The Political Production of Regimes of 'the Nigh'Nadine MachikouThe Sahara: A Space of Connection within an Emergent Africa,From the Anthropocene to the Spring of Geo-Cultural LifeBenaouda LebdaiMigrations, Narrations, the Refugee ConditionDominic ThomasVIHumanity and Animality: (Re)thinking AnthropocentrismBado NdoyeThe Tree Frogs' DistressLionel MangaTo Speak and Betray Nothing?Rodney Saint-ÉloiThe Paths of the VoiceIbrahima WaneNotesIndex
Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, JohannesburgFelwine Sarr is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University