Research Catalog

Title

To write the African world / edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr ; translated by Drew Burk.

Author

Ateliers de la pensée (1st : 2016 : Dakar, Senegal; Saint-Louis, Senegal)

Publication

• Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mbembe, Achille, 1957-
• Sarr, Felwine, 1972-
• Burk, Drew

Description

vii, 324 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "A path-breaking work that presents new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa"--
• "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. 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 Africa's 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. To Write the Africa World and its companion volume The Politics of Time 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." --

Series Statement

Critical South

Uniform Title

• Ecrire l'Afrique-monde. English
• Critical South.

Alternative Title

Ecrire l'Afrique-monde.

Subject

• Since 1960
• Forecasting
• Politics and government
• Economic conditions
• Globalization
• Africa > History > 1960- > Congresses
• Africa > Forecasting > Congresses
• Africa > Politics and government > 1960- > Congresses
• Africa > Economic conditions > 1960- > Congresses
• Africa > Development > Congresses
• Africa > Globalization > Congresses
• Africa

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Originally published as Ecrire l'Afrique-monde in 2017.
• Papers from the first Ateliers de la Pensée, October 28-31, 2016, Dakar and Saint-Louis Senegal.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Thinking for a New Century / Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr -- (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 -- For what is Africa the name? / Léonora Miano -- Epistemological Impasses around the object Africa / Maurice Soudieck Dione -- Reinventing African modernity! / Blondin Cissé -- 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 -- 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 -- 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

Call Number

Sc E 23-513

ISBN

• 9781509551064
• 1509551069
• 9781509551071
• 1509551077
• 9781509551088 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509555918 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022936522

OCLC

1306525527

Conference

Ateliers de la pensée (1st : 2016 : Dakar, Senegal; Saint-Louis, Senegal)

Title

To write the African world / edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr ; translated by Drew Burk.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical South

Critical South.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1960

Added Author

Mbembe, Achille, 1957- editor.

Sarr, Felwine, 1972- editor.

Burk, Drew, translator.

Translation Of:

Translation of: Ecrire l'Afrique-monde. [Paris] : Philippe Rey ; Dakar, Sénégal : Jimsaan, [2017] 9782848766010 (DLC) 2017437913

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-513