Felwine Sarr

Felwine Sarr (born 11 September 1972) is a Senegalese academic, musician and writer of novels and cultural essays, born in Sine Saloum, Niodior Arrondissement. He studied economics and taught this subject at Gaston Berger University (Senegal) until his move in 2020 to the position of Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University in the United States. Quotes “It's time to stop looking at Africa as a miserable continent that needs to be helped,” “This is what I call the 'Good Samaritan complex,' the so-called civilizing mission: no one has ever gone to Africa to civilize the people; Africans need respect, more than help and pity.” "That place Africa in a subordinate position. Africa is no longer looked at as it is, but as it should be. And we remain perpetually stuck in a comparative perspective , that is, we observe the economic performance of other countries and compare Africa to them. Africa is thus forced into this logic that emphasizes having rather than being, quantity rather than quality, and which forgets that the economy is a means, not an end." "Mine is an example to show that Africans have a wealth of social engineering to pass on to a world where solitude and isolation are increasingly prevalent. We must rediscover and recover the ability to build community, without believing that this is to the detriment of the value of the individual." External links Felwine Sarr Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:Philosophers Category:Socialists from Africa Category:Revolutionaries Category:Pan-Africanists Category:Musicians Category:Academics Category:Writers Category:Economists