Fellwine Sarr, recognized as one of the African intellectuals who counts the most on the international scene, he published a learning novel: “The places where my dreams live”, published by Gallimard.
His roots are in Senegal, on his native island of Niodior. Senegalese, he certainly is, but he is also a citizen of the world whom we welcome today. A man of culture and humanities, in all senses of the word. The career of this reggaeman black belt in karate, who has become one of the African intellectuals who count the most on the international scene, is not trivial. A writer, a philosopher, a professor too: economics for 13 years at Gaston Berger University in Senegal, African philosophy today at Duke University in the United States.
Since 2016, his essay on the future of Africa, “Afrotopia” has become a vade-mecum for a whole section of African youth. His Ateliers de la Pensée launched the same year with the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe also caused a stir, as did his “Report on the restitution of African cultural heritage” written with the art historian Bénédicte Savoy.
Since a few months, Felwine Sarr is also the happy co-publisher of the last Prix Goncourt, “The most secret memory of men” by its almost namesake Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. He publishes, with the Gallimard editions, in the Collection “L’Arpenteur” a novel of apprenticeship which stages two twin brothers: “The places where my dreams live”.
Report : Francois Hume was in Abidjan for the exhibition “Quietness and effervescence” to the Gallery LouiSimone Guirandou which exhibits until March 9, 2022 two Senegalese artists: Ndoye Douts and Alun Be.