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 […]

The capabilities approach provides a relevant theoretical framework for rethinking the relationship between the economy and democracy, based on an ethics grounded in real freedoms. Amartya K. Sen (1992) […]

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, […]

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.

The aim of this text is to explore the relationship between literature and ecology, and to do so by reflecting on what literature (language/languages) can do. I will make occasional forays into the […]

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” […].

This exercise in economic forecasting questions the order of discourse of a discipline that is sure of its categories, questioning its ability to elucidate reality (debt, inflation, production) on its own […].

Between a vision of fertile futures and memories of a poetic adolescence linked to Haiti, this story explores the emergence of possibilities and the power of beauty in the face of gloom […].

Economic discourse acts as an eco-myth within industrial society. This founding narrative shapes our beliefs and legitimises a social order based on progress and well-being […].

My vocation as a poet was born opposite Tambacounda, between the streets of laterite and the bougainvilleas known as “independences”, witnesses of a Senegal in the throes of change under the November sun.

In the face of social and environmental unravelling, this text questions our instrumental relationship with nature and the cosmology of separation that jeopardises the reproduction of life […].

Culture is explored here as a space for the production of meaning and social transformation, capable of reconfiguring our imaginations to have a lasting influence on our norms and practices […].

Inspired by Frantz Fanon, this text calls for a rise in humanity through decolonial creativity, far from imitating Europe, to free our societies from all domination […].

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 […].

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 […].