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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date:24/01/2023
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- ISBN:9781517913892
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date:24/01/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781517913892
