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Born in Senegal, Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and an authority on African and Islamic philosophy.
Jean-Loup Amselle is director of studies at the EHESS in Paris and a leading anthropologist of Africa.

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Foreword vii In focus: a comparative reading of Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle
Anthony Mangeon

Introduction 1
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle

1 Universalism in questions 7
Jean-Loup Amselle

2 On the universal and universalism 19
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3 Race, culture, identity 30
Jean-Loup Amselle

4 Africanity, Afrocentrism, representation 39
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5 The racial ban on representation 45
Jean-Loup Amselle

6 On cultural and linguistic specificities 50
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7 On African languages and translation 60
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8 An optimism of translation 67
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9 On philosophy in Islam and on the question of a 'West African Islam' 71
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10 The political instrumentalization of a West African Sufi Islam 87
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11 West African Sufism revisited 96
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12 Thinking/creating Africa 99
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13 On the non-existence of Africa ... and of Europe 106
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14 On Africa and pan-Africanism 114
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15 Souleymane Bachir Diagne's 'desire for Africa' 118
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16 Were human rights born in Africa? 120
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17 On the charters of the Mandé 131
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18 On various contemporary questions 136
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Notes 159

Bibliography 182