Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Felwine 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 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

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

V

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

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