In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent.

This book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensee - Workshops of Thought - in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa's present realities and its future. The contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century.

To Write the Africa World and its companion volume The Politics of Time will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa - its past, present, and future - and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.

About the Author
Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Felwine Sarr is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University

Reviews
"Questions to do with the world and its relationship with Africa have never been more urgent, and Africa is the richest and most indispensable source and location for thinking about these issues. To Write the Africa World is a rich and powerful contribution to the debate."
Fred Moten, New York University

"To Write the Africa World is a compelling and urgently necessary collection of essays centered around the present and future role of Africa in the global sphere... For scholars and writers who are interested in the future of Africa and new forms of critical inquiry and thought emerging from the continent, this volume will be essential reading."
JDDavisPoet

Book Information
ISBN 9781509551071
Author Achille Mbembe
Format Paperback
Page Count 318
Imprint Polity Press
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 499g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm