Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, <br/><br/>
In search of Africa(s):  universalism and decolonial thought/ 
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle, authors; translated by Andrew Brown. 
 - v, 184 pages;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Foreword / by Anthony Mangeon. -- Introduction / by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle -- Universalism in questions / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On the universal and universalism / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Race, culture, identity / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Africanity, Afrocentrism and representation / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The racial prohibition of representation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On cultural and linguistic specificities / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On African languages and translation / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- An optimism of translation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On philosophy in Islam and on the question of a 'West African Islam' / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The political instrumentalization of a West African Sufi Islam / Jean-Loup Amselle -- West African Sufism Revisited / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Thinking/creating Africa / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- On the non-existence of Africa... and of Europe / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On Africa and pan-Africanism / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne's 'desire for Africa' / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Were human rights born in Africa? / Jean-Loup Amselle -- On the charters of the Mande' / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- On various contemporary questions / Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle 
<br/><br/> "This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines the relationship between politics, religion and identity in contemporary culture and the possibility of a new universalism. Erudite, wide-ranging and eminently readable, it will be of great interests to students, scholars, and general readers alike"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781509540303 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019029693 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Postcolonialism--Africa.<br/>Postcolonialism--Philosophy.<br/>Decolonization--Africa.<br/>Cultural relations.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Relations--Western countries.<br/>Western countries--Relations--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JV246 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>2020  / D540