[出版のお知らせ] カメルーンの出版社Langaa RPCIGよりプロジェクトの成果（African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness）が出版されました。

カメルーンの出版社Langaa RPCIGよりプロジェクトの成果（African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness）が出版されました。編者は、太田至（京都大学）、フランシス・B・ニャムンジョ（ケープタウン大学）、松田素二（京都大学）の3人です。本プロジェクトは、当初の計画では2020年度が最終年度となっていましたが、コロナ禍のために2021年度まで期間を延長しました。毎年開催してきた「アフリカ・フォーラム」が実施できなかったために研究計画を変更し、”African Potentials: Convivial Perspectives for the Future of Humanity”シリーズ、全7巻に続いて、本書を出版しました。

本書では、これまでに本プロジェクトに継続的に深く関与してきたアフリカ人研究者7人と、日本人研究者6人の執筆陣が「アフリカ潜在力」に関するキーワードをひとつ選んで（以下の目次に大文字表記で示しました）、それに関する広範な議論を展開しています。本書の目次は、以下のとおりです。

本書には、以下の4人の方々から推薦文をいただきました。

推薦文（1）

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.

Faye V. Harrison
Professor of African American Studies & Anthropology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA
Past President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

推薦文（2）

This newest offering of the African Potentials Project explores crucial foundational questions confronting the enterprise of actualizing African potentials in ways which are freed from the continuing grip of Western colonialist prejudices and prescriptions, nourished by the vital resources of endogenous thought and practices, and yet “porous,” as the poet wrote, “to all the breathing of world.” To that end the contributing essays address relevant debates in contemporary African philosophy, appraisals of the strengths and weaknesses of traditional forms of political legitimation and debate, contestation and conflict resolution, resistance to oppressive and predatory regimes, the resilience of local norms of welcoming strangers in this season of creeping xenophobia. The result is a rich and variegated set of critical examinations and suggestions for discarding imperial and tyrannizing models of human knowledge, existence and association, and reactivating more liberating and enabling precepts and practices in this time of crisis.

Ato Sekyi-Otu
Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada
Author of Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

推薦文（3）

This book challenges colonial and age-old Western academic views that have dominated and marginalised African indigenous knowledge system. It spreads further the wings of knowledge and endeavour about an African way of thinking on conflict resolution and co-existence, and analytically connects this to the pursuit of Africa’s sustainable development frameworks. Ohta, Nyamnjoh and Matsuda are teachers you always wished for but never had. Together, they have made this book a path-breaking one, and essential reading for a broad based understanding of the African mindset.

Aparajita Biswas
Retd Professor, the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, India
Former President of the African Studies Association of India

推薦文（4）

What are African Potentials? A question which has been linked with African countries’ decolonisation and their development process. These African potentials as well as problems need to be discussed within an interdisciplinary platform of scholars, policy and decision makers, and civil societies. This African Potentials Project responds to all those needs and became a driving force to understand Africa and build a collaboration between African and Japanese scholars toward a common goal, changing the stereotype image of Africa and thinking about a better future for Africa. I hope that this book, as a result of a 10-year interdisciplinary, international joint research project, can be a reference for building new partnership between African and Japanese scholars, civil societies and regional institutions.

Oussouby Sacko
President, Kyoto Seika University, Japan

以下のサイトでご購入できます。
African Books Collective
https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/african-potentials

アマゾン
https://www.amazon.co.jp/African-Potentials-Bricolage-Incompleteness-Lifeness/dp/9956552305

また、African Books Collectiveのウェブサイトには、これまでに本プロジェクトを中心として、Langaa RPCIGから出版してきた13冊の「African Potentialsシリーズ」が、まとめて掲載されていますので、ご覧ください。
https://www.africanbookscollective.com/collections/the-african-potentials-series