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Felwine Sarr: Expanding the Geography of Knowledge

Felwine Sarr , Stéphane Martelly

One of the great thinkers of our time, Senegal’s Felwine Sarr moves among various fields: economics, philosophy, literature, and music. 

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One of the great thinkers of our time, Senegal’s Felwine Sarr moves among various fields: economics, philosophy, literature, and music. From academic settings to spaces of resistance—theatres, festivals, stages, or even the Ateliers de la pensée (“Workshops of Thought”), which he founded in Dakar and Saint-Louis, he asks how to construct a living society. His works offer a poetic and political response to contemporary global issues, illuminated by the possibilities of the African continent.

Linked to Traces – Discours aux Nations Africaines

 

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Felwine Sarr (Niodior)
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The Senegalese economist, philosopher, writer, musician and playwright Felwine Sarr questions the existing political and economic models, convinced that the African continent can be the driving force behind a planetary renewal—provided that it completes its decolonization and proposes a new project for civilization.

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Stéphane Martelly (Montreal)
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Writer, painter and scholar Stéphane Martelly was born in Port-au-Prince. Her deeply transdisciplinary practice, which draws from theory, critical thought, and artmaking, is marked by a reflexive approach to contemporary Haitian literature, creation, literary marginality, and the limits of interpretation.

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