Affirming the role of Africa in writing its history, defending the idea of an appointment of giving and receiving, engaging in dialogue with the rest of the world to give birth to a hybrid civilization of the universal, these are the questions that have haunted Senghor for more than half a century, and these are the questions that arise today for those who thought about the Senghor and the arts exhibition. Reinventing the Universal. February 7 / November 19, 2023. Quai Branly Museum, Paris.
To the sounds of the exhibition and our sound and musical archives, our guest Mamadou Diouf, historian and professor of African studies at Columbia University in New York revisits Senghor in his time and in the time of the world.
To read :
– Senghor and the arts, Reinventing the universal
Mamadou Diouf, Sarah Frioux-Salgas, Sarah Ligner
Quai Branly Museum
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Released February 8, 2023.
– Afrika N’Ko. The colonial library in debate
Texts in French and English
Mamadou Diawara, Mamadou Diouf, Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo
African presence
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Released January 26, 2022.
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Many thanks to Sarah Frioux-Salgas and Sarah Lignier, co-curators of the exhibition and to the entire Quai Branly team.
Special dedication to musician and composer Nicolas Repac for sharing his sound creation around the poems of Senghor, Césaire and Damas.