Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars- Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Open to Reason- Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition, Postcolonial Bergson, In Search of Africa(s)- Universalism and Decolonial Thought (coauthored with Jean-Loup Amselle), and African Art as Philosophy- Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Other Press, 2023). Dylan Temel is a translator and English instructor at the University of Nanterre. He currently lives in Paris.
Praise for African Art as Philosophy: “It perfectly articulates all of the answers to the questions one asks oneself when in contact with modern, postmodern, and contemporary Western arts, as well as non-Western traditional arts.” —New York Times Book Review “Diagne has further entrenched his reputation as a clear-sighted thinker.” —African Studies Review