Epistemologies from the Global South

This book reads Negritude through the prism of endogenous African world views without the filter of the modern Western paradigm.

Cheikh Thiam is professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College and the author and editor of several volumes on Negritude and African philosophy and literature.

Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction 1 Negritude: The Africa-Centered Imperative 2 From Senghor's Negritude to Glissant's Relation and Back: Orality, Writing and the Critique of Colonial Reason 3 Africa Unveiled: Decolonising the Black Atlantic 4 Decolonising France: Senghor, Mabanckou and the Future of the Republic Conclusion: Beyond Coloniality Bibliography Index