Souleymane Bachir Diagne Senegal's Top Philosopher – The Standard Newspaper

Souleymane Bachir Diagne Senegal's Top Philosopher – The Standard Newspaper

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is arguably the leading philosopher and intellectual to have emerged from Senegal since Cheikh Anta Diop. He has been named by Le Nouvel observateur as one of the 50 thinkers of our time. He took his PhD in philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1988 and his field of research includes Boolean algebra of logic, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, African philosophy and literature. He is a professor at New York’s Columbia Un…