“This is a profoundly important book-published by Langaa rather
than university presses such as Oxford, Cambridge or Duke. It represents
a truly remarkable intervention that is part of an exciting series of
books resulting from a decade-long collaboration between African and
Japanese scholars. Their partnership clearly demonstrates that they take
African life, knowledge, and capacity for remaking Africa in/and the
world seriously. One cannot read African Potentials without being
compelled to question and think beyond the established parameters of
what has been canonized about Africa. The convivial scholarship
encountered in this book and the larger project of which it is a part
reveals that robust forms of decolonial, pluriversal knowledge are being
produced through critically creative and creatively critical means of
inter-cultural engagement. This book shows what can be accomplished
through the concerted effort of shifting the geography of reason from
the West to other intellectually fertile landscapes and crossroads on
the planet.”
