To Write the Africa World von Achille Mbembe/Felwine Sarr

<p>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 African continent.</p><p>This book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée Workshops of Thought in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africas present realities and its future. The contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century.<br /><br /><i>To Write the Africa World</i> and its companion volume<i>The Politics of Time</i> will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa its past, present, and future and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.</p>

Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, JohannesburgFelwine 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 Ones Own Sense/Carving Out Ones 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 VPaths 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

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