Ecology of Knowledge

Felwine Sarr – Philippe Rey/Jimsaan – April 2026 Book review by Muhammad BA – May 2026 Felwine Sarr’s *La Fabrique du présent* stands out, on first reading, as a coherent continuation of *Afrotopia*. Whereas the latter opened up new horizons by calling on Africa to conceive of itself from within, this new essay focuses more […]

In the context of the need to develop new forms of political, economic and social life in African countries, the issue of knowledge production is of major importance.

Thomas Brisson analyses the de-Westernisation of knowledge as a dual movement of appropriation and critique, exploring the emergence of alternative modernities in Asia and the Arab world […].

Nêgo Bispo, a Quilombola thinker, refutes Western linear thinking in favour of a circular vision of time and life, where everything is a permanent “beginning, middle and beginning” […].

The production of knowledge in Africa goes beyond economic issues to become a lever for political and cultural emancipation, questioning the nature and purpose of the knowledge produced […].

Epistemological questions about the production of knowledge are fundamental to Africa’s emancipation. To build different futures, it is crucial to question the current paradigms that reproduce the social and political order […].

My research project is based on the premise that approaches to reality vary across civilisations and eras, that there is a plurality of modes of knowledge, and that there is gnoseological and epistemological relativity. It proposes to rethink the plurality of paths of human thought based on the idea of the fundamental equality of the […]