African Meditations (Paperback)

An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad   The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and ruminations, musical gatherings, and the everyday sights and sounds of life in West Africa as a young philosopher and creative writer seeks to establish himself as a teacher upon his return to Senegal, his homeland, after years of study abroad.  A unique contemporary portrait of an influential, multicultural thinker on a spiritual quest across continents—reflecting on his multiple literary influences along with French, African Francophone, and Senegalese tribal cultural roots in a homeland with a predominantly Muslim culture—African Meditations is a seamless blend of autobiography, journal entries, and fiction; aphorisms and brief narrative sketches; humor and Zen reflections.  Taking us from Saint-Louis to Dakar, Felwine Sarr encounters the rhythms of everyday life as well as its disruptions such as teachers’ strikes and power outages while traversing a semi-surrealistic landscape. As he reacclimates to his native country after a life in France, we get candid glimpses, both vibrant and hopeful, sublime and mundane, into his Zen journey to resecure a foothold in his roots and to navigate academia, even while gleaning something of the good life, of joy, amid the struggles of life in Senegal. 

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Univocal
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Felwine Sarr
Translators:	Drew S. Burk
Foreword by:	Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Dimensions:	204 x 134 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-1-5179-1389-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-5179-1389-6
Barcode:	9781517913892

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