- Lived:
- Born 1955, Saint-Louis, Senegal · Dakar, Paris, Evanston, New York
- Tradition:
- African and Islamic philosophy; philosophy of translation; history of logic
- The Big Idea:
- There is no capital city of the universal. What all humans share is not one language or one culture but the endless, hospitable work of translating between them — and that work is how we "make humanity together."
- In their words:
- "Faire humanité ensemble" — to make humanity together.
- If you remember one thing:
- A Senegalese Muslim philosopher who wrote his doctorate on the history of European logic, and who argues that the universal is not something the West owns and exports — it is something all of us build, sideways, language to language.