Nancy. “Decolonizing imaginaries and creating humanity together”, a lecture by Professor Diagne

Professor Diagne, your conference invites us to “decolonize imaginations”. What do you mean ?

Until recently and even until now, the knowledge highlighted was purely Western knowledge. But now we live in a decolonized world. It is therefore high time to reconstitute the plurality of this world, of the knowledge of this world, without being satisfied with Western perception alone.

An example to give us?

Well, philosophy, my field of research! During my studies, it was presented to me as a purely Western discipline, born in ancient Greece, taken up in…

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