Felwine Sarr Quotes

born 1972

Felwine Sarr (born 11 September 1972) is a Senegalese academic, musician and writer of novels and cultural essays, born in Sine Saloum, Niodior Arrondissement. He studied economics and taught this subject at Gaston Berger University (Senegal) until his move in 2020 to the position of Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University in the United States.

Socialists

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“This is what I call the 'Good Samaritan complex,' the so-called civilizing mission: no one has ever gone to Africa to civilize the people; Africans need respect, more than help and pity.”

“It's time to stop looking at Africa as a miserable continent that needs to be helped,”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Felwine Sarr (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.