In Search of Africa(s) : Universalism and Decolonial Thought (Paperback)

Foreword vii

In focus: a comparative reading of Souleymane?Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle
Anthony Mangeon

Introduction 1
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle

1 Universalism in questions 7
Jean-Loup Amselle

2 On the universal and universalism 19
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

3 Race, culture, identity 30
Jean-Loup Amselle

4 Africanity, Afrocentrism, representation 39
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

5 The racial ban on representation 45
Jean-Loup Amselle

6 On cultural and linguistic specificities 50
Jean-Loup Amselle

7 On African languages and translation 60
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

8 An optimism of translation 67
Jean-Loup Amselle

9 On philosophy in Islam and on the question of a ‘West African Islam’ 71
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

10 The political instrumentalization of a West African Sufi Islam 87
Jean-Loup Amselle

11 West African Sufism revisited 96
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

12 Thinking/creating Africa 99
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

13 On the non-existence of Africa … and of Europe 106
Jean-Loup Amselle

14 On Africa and pan-Africanism 114
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

15 Souleymane Bachir Diagne’s ‘desire for Africa’ 118
Jean-Loup Amselle

16 Were human rights born in Africa? 120
Jean-Loup Amselle

17 On the charters of the Mande 131
Souleymane Bachir Diagne

18 On various contemporary questions 136
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle

Notes 159

Bibliography 182