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CONTENTS
1 Cover
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
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’?