An African Concept of World

Pr. Salim Abdelmadjid (at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)

Pr. Ali Benmakhlouf (CAS/UM6P)

May 15, 2025

UM6P Campus – Benguerir

This  presentation proposes a concept of world based on African history and the African situation. Its elaboration begins with the observation of the contradiction between the concept of world, which presupposes its unity, and the reality of this world, i.e. its division, eminently revealed by the asymmetry of borders between the global north and south, and singularly intense in Africa: literally, it must be said, the world does not exist. The other side of this contradiction is that between the non-existence of the world and the existence of the concept of world: the unity of the world is a regulative idea of reason.