"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
Thinking for a New CenturyAchille Mbembe and Felwine SarrI(European?) Universalism: put to the test by indigenous historiesMamadou DioufLaetitia Africana: philosophy, decolonization, melancholiaNadia Yala KisukidiFor a truly universal universalSouleymane Bachir DiagneMigrant writers: builders of a balanced globalization of Africa/EuropeBenaouda LebdaiIIFor what is Africa the name?Léonora MianoEpistemological Impasses around the object AfricaMaurice Soudieck DioneReinventing African modernity!Blondin CisséWhat is a postcolonial author?Lydie MoudilenoIIIHow can one be African?Hourya BentouhamiRe-discovering meaningBonaventure Mve-OndoEsteem For Self:Creating One's Own Sense/Carving Out One's Own PathSéverine Kodjo-GrandvauxDictionary for lovers of the African continent: two entriesAlain Mabanckou and Abdourahman WaberiEmancipatory utopiasFrançoise VergèsIVMartiality and death in sexual relations in CameroonParfait D. AkanaConfronted with demographic challenges and technological mutations: does a good paying-job have a future in Africa?Ndongo Samba SyllaHealing the in-commonAbdourahmane SeckVPaths of the universalSami TchakRe-enchanting the world: Husserl in the post-colonyNado NdoyeWriting the humanities from the vantage point of AfricaFelwine SarrThinking the world from the vantage point of AfricaAchille MbembeNotesIndex
Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, JohannesburgFelwine Sarr is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University