Around the question

How to reckon with and on African research?

Show 2

Audio 48:30

Caroline Lachowsky and historian Mamadou Diouf in Saint-Louis, Senegal.

© Oriane Deschamps

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

Second part of our African Research Matters series recorded at the Gaston Berger University of St-Louis in Senegal, on the occasion of the launch of Global Africa, the first interdisciplinary and multilingual pan-African scientific journal.

Viewpoints from the most inspiring researchers in the humanities and social sciences, from all continents and from the diaspora.

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Delighted to meet you, dear listener friends, on the Gaston Berger University campus in Saint-Louis, for the second part of our

Global Africa

series , named after the first pan-African and multilingual scientific journal launched in mid-March. 2022, during a symposium whose title is already a whole program: 

African Research Matters

.

How, from Africa, to rethink and heal the world?

Why rely on and with African research?

Welcome to this second part of listening to 3 committed voices that matter:

With the Senegalese historian 

Mamadou Diouf,

 professor in the United States at Columbia University in New York.

He looks back on the history of Saint-Louis, at the crossroads of time, the world and the challenges of our time.

Nigerian political science professor

 Adebayo Olukoshi

, professor at the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, who returns to the importance of decolonizing minds in the North as well as in the South. 

And 

Nadine Machikou,

 professor at the University of Yaoundé 2 in Cameroon.

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