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Is there a Sahelian intellectual tradition? This presentation looks at the particularities of the Sahel as a meeting ground of West African, Islamic, and Western cultural influences to describe and analyze a specific Sahelian intellectual attitude in the time of modernity. The presentation will rely on a variety of works, from so-called oral literature to Arabophone and Europhone writings and other mediums - film especially - to delve into the trends and tensions that define the Sahel's intellectual engagement with the problems of modernity.

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