Arriving in his native land, the wise Souleymane Bachir Diagne, faithful to the Ateliers de la Pensée founded in 2016 in the Senegalese capital by Felwine Sarr and Achille Mbembé, wanted, like other guests from France, to know the latest news from the Ukrainian front. And in the words of the Senegalese philosopher, who teaches at Columbia and has just published From language to language published by Albin Michel, indulging in intellectual encounters on cosmology and the links between living things could have led people to believe that the participants were settling on board a “hot air balloon”. But it didn’t take long for Ukraine, through a question from Wasis Diop, the Senegalese musician that we know, to invite itself to this first and dense day of the Workshops at the museum of…
