1  Cover

      2  Front Matter

      3  Foreword: In focus: a comparative reading of Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle Seeing double Looking through cultural spectacles Convergences Souleymane Bachir Diagne: a philosophy of translation Jean-Loup Amselle: an uncompromising anthropology From one dialogue to another Notes

      4  Introduction Notes

      5  1 Universalism in questions Notes

      6  2 On the universal and universalism Notes

      7  3 Race, culture, identity Merleau-Ponty Class and identity First phase: Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1939) Second phase: the Discourse on Colonialism (1950) Third phase: the letter to Maurice Thorez (1956) Philosophy and anthropology Universalism as a matrix Notes

      8  4 Africanity, Afrocentrism, representation Notes

      9  5 The racial ban on representation Exhibit B Rumour Deconstructing race and (skin) colour Notes

      10  6 On cultural and linguistic specificities The non-existence of language(s) The reversal of the linguistic stigma For a geopolitics of languages Notes

      11  7 On African languages and translation Notes

      12  8 An optimism of translation Notes

      13  9 On philosophy in Islam and on the question of a ‘West African Islam’ What led me to write about Islam Falsafa in general and the philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal in particular Islam: the West African heritage The ‘Sufi preference’? Notes

      14  10 The political instrumentalization of a West African Sufi Islam West African Sufi Islam and ‘Black Islam’ Notes

      15  11 West African Sufism revisited

      16  12 Thinking/creating Africa Notes

      17  13 On the non-existence of Africa … and of Europe African diaspora/Black Atlantic African diaspora and the sixth region of Africa Thinking/creating Africa Notes

      18  14 On Africa and pan-Africanism Notes

      19  15 Souleymane Bachir Diagne’s ‘desire for Africa’ Notes

      20  16 Were human rights born in Africa? Act One Act Two Act Three: Souleymane Kanté and N’Ko Act Four: the Kankan meeting (1998) The aftermath of the Kankan meeting: ‘Charter of Kurukan Fuga’ or ‘Charter of the Mandé’? Скачать книгу