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The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University
Jonathan Adjemian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.40

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The ink Scholars Philosophy Africa

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CODESRIA, Dakar, 2016, 116 p., ISBN 978-2-86978-705-6

What are the issues discussed today by African philosophers? Four important topics are identified here as important objects of philosophical reflection on the African continent. One is the question of ontology in relation to African religions and aesthetics. Another is the question of time and, in particular, of prospective thinking and development. A third issue is the task of reconstructing the intellectual history of the continent through the examination of the question of orality but also by taking into account the often neglected tradition of written erudition in Islamic centres of learning. Timbuktu is certainly the most important and most famous of such intellectual centres. The fourth question concerns political philosophy: the concept of “African socialisms” is revisited and the march that led to the adoption of the “African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights” is examined. All these important issues are also fundamental to understanding the question of African languages and translation.

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University

Après avoir enseigné à l’université de Dakar, Souleymane Bachir Diagne est professeur à Columbia
University depuis 2008. Ses recherches s’inscrivent dans l’histoire de la philosophie et de la
logique algébrique, l’histoire de la philosophie islamique ainsi que dans la littérature
francophone et la philosophie africaines. Ses ouvrages les plus récents sont : Bergson
postcolonial. L’élan vital dans la pensée de Léopold Sédar Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal, Paris, CNRS
Éditions, 2011 (ouvrage distingué par le prix Dagnan-Bouveret de l’Académie des sciences morales et
politiques en 2011) ; L’encre des savants. Réflexions sur la philosophie en Afrique, Paris,
Présence africaine & Codesria, 2013 ; Comment philosopher en islam, Paris, Philippe Rey, 2013.

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