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African Meditations (Paperback)
Felwine Sarr; Translated by Drew S. Burk; Foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
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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.Â
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