AFRICAN MEDITATIONS, translated by Drew S. Burk, foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne

125pp., paperback, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2022

ISBN: 9781517913892

First published in 2012 in French as Méditations Africaines.

A collection of writings - autobiography, journal entries, fiction, aphorisms, brief narrative sketches and Zen reflections - by Felwine Sarr.

"African Meditations speaks of the earth: how we inhabit it and connect to its most elementary forces. It aphoristically reflects on happiness but ponders its fragmentary nature and precariousness. Felwine Sarr shows us the good life and suggests that, in Senegal and beyond, it often takes the path of ‘motionless pilgrimages.’ A wise and richly evocative book." Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, University of Warwick

Senegalese philosopher, economist, novelist, musician Felwine Sarr is Anne-Marie Bryan Chair of French and Francophone studies at Duke University. He is author of the essay Afrotopia (2019) and co-author (with Bénédicte Savoy) of the report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron, “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics.”

Drew S. Burk has translated more than a dozen books of philosophy and theory from the French, including Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia.