Laurent Jaffro

Laurent Jaffro is a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. With Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais of Columbia and Ali Benmakhlouf, he co-leads the African Humanities Project, a collaboration between Columbia, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Paris 1 that reinterprets the humanities through an African lens and, through a series of workshops, develops an African humanities curriculum engaging with the historical, philosophical and cultural dimensions of African intellectual traditions.