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

To Write the Africa World