Decolonial thought has had a profound impact on the intellectual history of the 20th century. According to Senegalese journalist and writer Elgas, today it has taken an inquisitorial and rancorous turn.
El Hadj Souleymane Gassama, a.k.a. Elgas, is one of those thinkers whose wealth of words is not an artifice, but a lever for reflection. His humanistic approach relentlessly questions the intellectual and historical dynamics that run through the African continent, as demonstrated by his program «Afrique, mémoires d'un continent» on RFI.
In 2023, Elgas published Les bons ressentiments, a thoughtful essay in which he denounces a drift in so-called «decolonial» thinking, a critical approach aimed at analyzing and questioning the legacies of colonialism within power structures, knowledge and representations. According to the Senegalese writer, suspicion
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