Felwine Sarr

Professor · Duke University

Felwine Sarr is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University. Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He has taught at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, where he is a full professor of economics. His academic work focuses on the ecology of knowledge, contemporary African philosophy, economic policy, epistemology, economic anthropology and the history of religious ideas.
His publications to date include Dahij (Gallimard 2009); 105 rue Carnot (Mémoire d’encrier 2011); Méditations africaines (Mémoire d’encrier 2012); Afrotopia (Philippe Rey 2016); Ishindenshin (Mémoire d’encrier 2017); Habiter le Monde (Mémoire d’encrier 2017); Écrire l’Afrique-monde (collective work co-edited with Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rey 2017); Restituer le patrimoine africain (Philippe Rey/Seuil) with Bénédicte Savoy; Politique des Temps (co-edited with Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rey 2019); La Saveur des derniers mètres (Philippe Rey 2021); Traces (Actes Sud 2021); L’Économie à venir (Les liens qui libèrent 2021) with Gaël Giraud; and Les Lieux qu’habitent mes Rêves (Gallimard 2022).