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Felwine Sarr

Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University

Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese scholar, writer, and musician. He is a Full Professor at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, a professor of economics, and the Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance and African Studies at Duke University in North Carolina. His academic work focuses on economics, contemporary African philosophy, and epistemology. He is the author of essays, novels, short stories, and plays.

To date, he has published Dahij (Gallimard, 2009), 105 Rue Carnot (Mémoire d’Encrier, 2011), Méditations Africaines (Mémoire d’Encrier, 2012), Afrotopia (Philippe Rey, 2016), Ishindenshin (Mémoire d’Encrier, 2017), Habiter le Monde (Mémoire d’Encrier, 2017), Écrire l’Afrique-monde (collective work, Proceedings of the Dakar Thought Workshops (2016), co-edited with Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rey/Jimsaan, 2017). In 2018, he co-authored with Bénédicte Savoy the report on the restitution of African heritage looted from Africa during the colonial era, which was published under the title Restituer le patrimoine Africain (Philippe Rey / Seuil). In 2019, he published Politique des Temps (a collective work resulting from the Ateliers de la pensée de Dakar (2017), co-edited with Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rey / Jimsaan), La Saveur des derniers mètres (Philippe Rey, 2021), Traces (Actes Sud, 2021), translated into Wolof as Watit by Youssoupha Sarr in 2023 (EJO Editions), l’Économie à venir (Les liens qui Libèrent, 2021) with Gaël Giraud, Les Lieux qu’Habitent mes Rêves (Gallimard, 2022), Le Bouddhisme est né á Colobane (Philippe Rey / Jimsaan, 2024), La Fabrique du Présent (Philippe Rey / Jimsaan, 2026).