David Diop: "I learned to live before writing"

Born in 1966 in Paris to a Senegalese father and a French mother, David Diop spent his childhood and adolescence in Dakar before returning to France for his higher education. After a thesis on the intellectual origins of political philosophy in theEncyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alemberthe became a lecturer in 18th century literature at the … Read more

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