In recent years, the social sciences have been crossed by a major questioning movement of scientific discourse on Africa. The inventory of the colonial library, decolonial thought, and the decoding of the contents of the “black boxes” that are the most commonly used concepts in the social sciences constitute various declinations of this ambition to reappropriate a science of Africa that was built without this continent. The conference Rethinking Politics from Conflicts in Africa was part of this renewal of African social sciences. This conference was organized by the Fellows of the African Postdoctoral Pilot Academy (PAPA), a program of excellence that brings together fifteen postdoctoral students from various African higher education and research institutions. It was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education in Research and is organized in cooperation with MIASA in Accra (Ghana), Point Sud in Bamako (Mali), the University of Basel (Switzerland) as well as the University of Frankfurt (Germany).

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