There are questions that a civilization keeps returning to because it has never quite answered them. Who are we? is one. What do we share with those who are not us? is another. For much of the last century, these two questions have been set against each other, as though a strong answer to the first could only come at the cost of the second. Prof. Abdoulaye Elimane Kane has spent a lifetime arguing otherwise. His book, In Praise of Identities: Of the Universal and the Particul

Texte prononcé le samedi 22 FEVRIER 2020 à la salle Amady Aly Dieng de l’HARMATTAN à l’occasion de la cérémonie de dédicace du livre. Ce qui est défini dans ce livre comme IDENTITE-RELATION, c’est la compréhension du concept d’identité. Le fait d’être en mesure de tenir ensemble les éléments constitutifs de ce spectre fait de moi un SUJET, c’est-à-dire un être doué de la capacité d’agir. Et en dépit de son caractère composite, cette identité n’est interchangeable avec aucune

Prof. Abdoulaye Elimane KANE Professor Abdoulaye Elimane Kane is a Senegalese philosopher, novelist, essayist, and former minister, known as an important figure in francophone African philosophy and Senegalese political life, At UCAD he served as head of the philosophy department from 1987 to 1989, helping shape university-level philosophical teaching in Senegal His philosophical work engages themes such as African identity, rationality, and the debate on the existence and fo