Southern philosophies, decolonial thought, postcolonial thought, indigenous epistemologies, endogenous knowledge

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 […].