African Meditations av Felwine Sarr

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<P><B>An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad</B><BR/> </P><P>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 <I>African Meditations,</I> 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. </P><P>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—<I>African Meditations</I>