Felwine Sarr

Felwine Sarr at the Salon du Livre 2011 in Geneva

Felwine Sarr (born September 11, 1972 in Niodior , Senegal ) is a Senegalese social scientist, author and musician . Since 2007 he has been Professor of Economics at the Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis , Senegal.

Life

After graduating from the Collège Sacré-Cœur in Dakar , he studied economics at the University of Orléans , where he received his doctorate in 2006. Since 2007 he has been teaching at the Gaston Berger University (UGB) in Saint-Louis , where he received his habilitation in 2009 and has been a professor since then. In 2011 he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management and coordinator of the new Faculty of Civilizations, Religions, Art et Communication (CRAC) at the UGB. Sarr has been Vice President of the Directors' Conference of OSIWA, the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, since 2014 . He is also editor of the Journal of African Transformation .

Together with the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe , he founded the Ateliers de la Pensée in October 2016 , an association of around 30 scientists and artists with the aim of creating a space for intellectual debate in Africa.

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In academic teaching and research, Felwine Sarr deals with macroeconomics , political economy , econometrics , development economics , epistemology and the history of religion . In his highly acclaimed work Afrotopia , which was awarded the Grands prix des associations littéraires in the research category in 2016, he uses postcolonial theories to devote himself to the decolonization of Africa and advocates the reappropriation of African metaphors for the future. In developing African democracies , the aim should not be to reproduce the history of the West; rather, Africa must reinvent itself through a synthesis of traditional and contemporary forms of organization. The book was published in German translation in January 2019. Rainer Gruszczynski criticized Sarr's recommendation to Africans to forego family planning and birth control so that the "demographic losses" that Africa incurred through slavery could be offset.

Sarr's work also includes other essays and several literary works. He is also co-founder of the Senegalese publisher Jimsaan . Sarr is also active as a musician and has released three albums: Civilization ou Barbarie (2000), Les mots du Récit (2005) and Bassaï (2007).

In March 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron Sarr commissioned the French art historian Bénédicte Savoy to explore the possibilities and criteria for returning colonial cultural assets from French museums to African countries. On November 23, 2018, Sarr and Savoy submitted their final report entitled Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain (German: Report on the restitution of African cultural assets ). The report is publicly available in the French original and in an English translation. In an interview six months later, he was disillusioned with the French attitude, but saw positive signals from Germany.

Publications

• Dahij . Gallimard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2070122677 .
• 105 rue Carnot . Mémoire d'encrier, Montréal 2011, ISBN 978-2923713571 .
• Médiations Africaines . Mémoire d'encrier, Montréal 2012, ISBN 978-2923713731 .
• Afrotopia . Philippe Rey, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2848765020 .
  • Afrotopia . German translation by Max Henninger, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-677-4 .
• Ishindenshin . Mémoire d'encrier, Montréal 2017, ISBN 978-2-89712-516-5 .
• Habiter le monde . Mémoire d'encrier, Montréal 2017, ISBN 978-2-89712-519-6 .
• with Achille Mbembe (ed.): Écrire l'Afrique-Monde . Phillipe Rey / Jimsaan, Paris / Dakar 2017, ISBN 978-2848766010 .

Web links

Commons : Felwine Sarr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Felwine Sarr , personal website of the University of Gaston Berger
• Felwine Sarr , Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Nantes
• Felwine Sarr , author portrait on the publisher's website of Mémoire d'encrier
• Interview about Afrotopia , ZDF Kulturzeit
• Restitution report on the return of African looted art , published on November 23, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felwine Sarr . In: Festival Histoire et Cité - archive 2017 . ( histoire-cite.ch [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
2. ↑ Board Members . In: OSIWA . ( osiwa.org [accessed August 21, 2018]).
3. ↑ Felwine SARR - Fellows - Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ "Ancrer un espace de débat ouvert en Afrique". In: Les Ateliers de la pensée. October 24, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Thinking Workshops 2017: An open space for debate in Africa . In: ID4D . October 24, 2017 ( ideas4development.org [accessed August 21, 2018]).
6. ↑ Felwine Sarr. Université Gaston Berger, accessed on August 21, 2018 (English). 
7. ↑ Felwine SARR - Fellows - Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Afrotopia. In: Philippe Rey. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (French). 
9. ↑ Felwine Sarr on "Afrotopia". ZDF Kulturzeit, June 16, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Afrotopia. In: Matthes & Seitz. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Blog entry by the Friday community , November 28, 2019, accessed on December 1, 2019.
12. ↑ Felwine Sarr. In: Mémoire d'encrier. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (American English). 
13. ↑ Felwine SARR - Fellows - Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation. Retrieved August 21, 2018 . 
14. ^ Restitution du patrimoine africain: "Nous sommes face à un défi historique". In: LeMonde.fr. March 22, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2018 (fr-fr). 
15. ↑ Felwine Sarr, Bénédicte Savoy: Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle. Retrieved February 5, 2019 (French, English). 
16. ↑ Werner Bloch in Die Zeit of July 24, 2019: “Almost nothing has happened” The French President wanted his advice on how to deal with looted colonial art - and is now ignoring it. The Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr on the arrogance of Europeans and the great opportunity of the restitution debate.