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TwoTwo quotes introduce Universaliser (Albin Michel), the new essay by Souleymane Bachir Diagne. One from Léopold Sédar Senghor: “Measuring the pride of being different by the happiness of being together”; the other from Jean Jaurès: “Towards this great goal of humanity, it is also by means of humanity that socialism goes.” Filmed at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris, this first issue of “L'échappée”, the new Mediapart program presented by Edwy Plenel, revisits the career of this unique philosopher, born on November 1, 1955 in Saint-Louis (Senegal), who has today become one of the most respected contemporary African voices. His latest book summarizes the thinking that led him to develop the concept of a "lateral or horizontal" universal that is "capable of embracing the plural of the world", this plural of the world denied by colonialism, which "aims to bring the whole world back to the same". The originality of this thought is that it invites decentering by drawing on African and Islamic philosophies. Souleymane Bachir Diagne claims a rationalist Islam rooted in the Sufi tradition. He recounted his life story in Le Fagot de ma mémoire (Philippe Rey) and, more recently, in Ubuntu (EHESS editions). Mediapart has only one financial resource: the money from its subscriptions. No billionaire shareholders, no ads, no state subsidies, no money paid by Google, Amazon, Facebook… ➡️ To help us enrich our video production, support us by subscribing from 1 euro: https://abo.mediapart.fr/abonnement/d... ➡️ If you are already a subscriber or would like to support us in another way, you have another way to act, the donation: https://donorbox.org/mediapart?defaul... ➡️ Subscribe to our newsletters! https://info.mediapart.fr/renderers/p...