EAN: 9781517913892

AFRICAN MEDITATIONS - FELWINE SARR KARTONIERT (TB)

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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