Francophone Afrotopias

This editorial presents the collection’s theme – francophone Afrotopias – by summarizing Felwine Sarr’s 2016 essay Afrotopia and its call to reinvent Africa through pluridisciplinarity and imagination. It explains the organization of the issue and provides an overview of each contribution. This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence through the support of the Winthrop-King Institute: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .

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Francosphères
Published
2026-06-25
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3828/franc.2026.1
Primary Topic
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Abstract

This editorial presents the collection’s theme – francophone Afrotopias – by summarizing Felwine Sarr’s 2016 essay Afrotopia and its call to reinvent Africa through pluridisciplinarity and imagination. It explains the organization of the issue and provides an overview of each contribution. This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence through the support of the Winthrop-King Institute: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .

FrancosphèresVol. 15(1)
Florida State University (US)
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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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