Souleymane Bachir DiagneSouleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of French and Philosophy and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of research and publication include history of philosophy, history of logic and mathematics, Islaic philosophy, and African philosophy and literature. His latest publications in English include Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2018); Postcolonial Bergson (Fordham University Press, 2019); In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (with Jean-Loup Amselle, Polity, 2020); African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Other Press, 2023). Read More Read Less