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Felwine Sarr Author & Editor

Felwine Sarr—philosopher, economist, novelist, musician—is Anne-Marie Bryan Chair of French and Francophone studies at Duke University. He is author of Afrotopia (Minnesota, 2019) and coauthor of the groundbreaking report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron, “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics.” 

Drew S. Burk has translated more than a dozen books of philosophy and theory from the French, including Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia and Frédéric Neyrat’s The Unconstructable Earth, which won the 2019 French Voices Award First Prize for translation.