Book Table for Reimagining Africa with Felwine Sarr

How can we move beyond dominant narratives of development and reimagine Africa on its own terms? What knowledge counts, and who decides?

Join us for a public conversation with Prof. Felwine Sarr, one of Africa’s leading contemporary thinkers, as he reflects on the ideas in his influential book Afrotopia and what has changed since its publication. Against the backdrop of global aid cuts, shifting power dynamics, and the urgent need to decolonize knowledge production, Sarr invites us to reimagine Africa’s future through a new, self-determined lens.

Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese economist, philosopher, and writer. He currently holds the Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professorship of Romance Studies at Duke University, after teaching at Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. His work spans economics, epistemology, African philosophy, and cultural restitution. Sarr is the author of numerous publications, including Afrotopia (2016), Restituer le patrimoine Africain (2018, with Bénédicte Savoy), and L'Économie à venir (2021, with Gaël Giraud).

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