Philosophy

The Senegalese philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne published this year his autobiography, "Le fagot de ma mémoire". He develops his favorite themes, which range from postcolonial to critical thinking in Islam, including African philosophies. Since 2008, the author has taught at Columbia University in New York, where he heads the Institute of African Studies. Here is the second part of the column that Tirthankar Chanda dedicates to this…

The French translation of the well-known essay by the Congolese thinker and writer Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, revealed in English in 1988, is lastly launched by Présence africaine. An occasion e-book, initiated by the historian Mamadou Diouf, which tells his story. The invention of Africa, a basic of postcolonial considering,…