Postcolonial Spatialities with Felwine Sarr

This is an Archive of a Past Event

For the first Postcolonial Spatialities workshop event this quarter, please join  Professor Felwine Sarr of Duke University who will discuss music in Africa as a space of knowledge and epistemologies of the non-logos. An article by Dr. Sarr, entitled “Rebuilding Knowledge in African Countries,” is linked below as recommended pre-reading.

Rebuilding Knowledge in African Countries_Felwine Sarr.pdf


 

About the Speaker

Felwine Sarr is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Afrotopia (University of Minnesota Press, 2019, tr. by Drew S. Burk), “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics,” Méditations africaines (Mémoire d’encrier, 2011), and many more. 

Learn more about his work