Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia—An Utopian Vision Fruitful for Africa?

Rigmar Osterkamp ()

A chapter in Power and Responsibility, 2023, pp 359-372 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics in Senegal, describes in Afrotopia a way Africa could overcome its perceived mental and cultural dependence on the West. This way is described as Africa’s “de-westernization,” or as the expulsion of the West from Africa’s “collective imaginary”. According to Sarr, it is the duty of African philosophers, social scientists and economists to pave the way by de-westernizing epistemology, social science and economics and renovating these fields in an African way. This research program has important consequences for the universities in Africa, given their colonial legacy. Instead of only reforming them, Sarr believes they must be completely abolished, before the foundation for a truly new African university can be laid.

Keywords: Africa; Colonialism; Decolonisation; Homo oeconomicus; Millennium Development Goals; Utopia; Western Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23015-8_20

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