Who are we? What do we want to become? Two questions at the heart of a reflection on identities. The aim is twofold: to acknowledge the validity of the fears aroused by the manipulation and malicious use of this concept, without phobia or fetishism of the universal, and to argue that relativism is compatible with universalism without leading to scepticism. Abdoulaye Elimane Kane is a retired university professor who taught at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. A former Minister of Communication and Culture in Senegal, he is also a novelist and contributor to several magazines and periodicals.
Source: Editions L’Harmattan Sénégal
