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Review: ‘Dahomey’ dissects the restitution of Beninese artifacts, with poetry at its heart
Mati Diop’s lyrical documentary, screened at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, tackles the restitution of 26 stolen artifacts in 2021, centering the perspectives of the artifacts themselves.
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Hommage magistral pour le philosophe sénégalais Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Durant trois jours, le philosophe sénégalais Souleymane Bachir Diagne a reçu un hommage XXL à l’université de Columbia, à New York, où il termine sa carrière d’enseignant chercheur après plus de quinze ans sur le campus. Avec plus de trente intervenants de marque, dont, entre autres, les philosophes Philippe Gouët et Françoise Blum, mais aussi le Marocain Ali Benmakhlouf, l’évènement a permis de revenir sur l’impact interdisciplinaire du chercheur natif de Saint-Louis sur le milieu universitaire.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne: 'Our era is marked by a generalized withdrawal into identity, universalism has died'
The Senegalese philosopher expresses his alarm in an interview with Le Monde at the war launched on Columbia University by the Trump administration and points out that 'sub-Saharan Africa has never been of great importance' in American foreign policy.
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