TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diagne,Souleymane Bachir
AU  - Amselle,Jean-Loup
AU  - Mangeon,Anthony
AU  - Brown,Andrew
TI  - In search of Africa(s): universalism and decolonial thought
SN  - 9781509540303
AV  - JV246 
U1  - 2020 DC 320.01
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA
PB  - Polity
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Africa
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Cultural relations
KW  - Relations
KW  - Western countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -