Blondin CISSE

Dr Blondin Cissé graduated from Paris Diderot-Paris 7 University in philosophy and political science. Lecturer at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis in Senegal, he is the current section head of the Center for the Study of Religions (UFR CRAC). A researcher at the Laboratory for Social and Political Change (LCSP) in Paris 7, he coordinates the Observatory of African Civil Societies of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Societies and Powers Africa/Diaspora (LASPAD) at the UGB. He has notably published: Brotherhoods and political community in Senegal: for a critique of the unifying paradigm in politics (L’Harmattan, 2008); “The problem of the African renaissance in the Consciencism of Nkrumah” (2012, Présence Africaine, n°185-186, 2012); “Reinventing living together: African and Arab-Islamic resources” (2014, Raisonnance); “Reinventing African modernity (2016, Philippe Rey/Jimsaan); “Reflections on the banality of evil” (2019, Revue sénégalaise de philosophie); “Enclosed spaces: object of refuge and expression of religious radicalism in Senegal” (2021, Karthala, forthcoming); “Race and humanism: the question of humanity in the 19th century (2021, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, forthcoming).