Voicing African Voices

Author

Désiré Médégnon

Désiré Médégnon is a Beninese Philosopher from Sado, a village located at about fifteen kilometers from Porto-Novo which is the administrative capital of the country. After a Master's degree at the National University of Benin, he joined the College of Advanced Studies of Paris (EHESS) where he defended in September 2009 his PhD dissertation on "The Anthropology of Knowledges: Scope and Limitations of two Systems of African knowledges". He has, as an educational councilor, advised teachers of secondary schools for several years. Since 2010, he teaches African philosophy and epistemology at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin Republic.

Philosophy Social Sciences

Le fa, entre croyances et science

by Désiré Médégnon

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