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
Notes
Index