Philosophies and Epistemologies of Dignity

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 […]

Hospitality has often been thought of as an obligation that lies at the heart of the practices of human societies, to welcome those who come and are called strangers. These societies (human societies, […]

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 […].

This text questions our relationship with the places that inhabit, shape or miss us, exploring how the way we occupy space determines our presence in the world […].

This text explores three re-readings of the debate on ethnophilosophy via S. B. Diagne, P. Hountondji and J.-G. Bidima. Through language, criticism and the paradigm of the Traversée, they shift the debate without ever closing it […].

This text offers two readings of Négritude: that of Jean-Paul Sartre in “Orphée noir” on race and language, and that of Suzanne Césaire, whose dissident writings open up a path to liberation from the West Indies […].

This text analyses Négritude as an emancipation movement that emerged in the 1930s. Through Senghor and Césaire, it explores how black identity was invented by turning stigma into a cultural and political claim […].

Mamoussé Diagne questions the relevance of the debate on the existence of an African philosophy. He proposes a rigorous analysis of how cultures produce meaning in order to determine whether their modes of operation are philosophical […].

This article explores the right to philosophise in Africa and the legitimacy of thinking in terms of one’s own concepts. From the debate on ethnophilosophy to the challenge to the monopoly of Reason, it analyses the plurality of traditions of thought […].

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 […].

Why rethink the model of the humanities? The question might seem pointless, given that the humanities – and the humanism they embody – appear to be a force for progress and an open-minded worldview, inviting us to consider the conditions necessary for peaceful coexistence. It is, in fact, widely accepted that the humanities provide one […]