Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition, Postcolonial Bergson, and African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Other Press, 2023).