« Now Negro has been republished – a complete facsimile of the original, at 900 pages still overwhelming in its sprawl, but good value at €100 – by Nouvelles Éditions Place, with an introduction by Sarah Frioux-Salgas, an archivist at the Quai Branly museum, and a foreword by Mamadou Diouf, a professor of African Studies at Columbia; together they acknowledge the work’s “inconsistencies and . . . essentialist clichés” while also emphasizing its “major, unique and original” significance as an “encyclopedia of Black African and diaspora modernity”… »  Lire la suite