Felwine Sarr is a scholar, writer, and musician. He is a Full Professor at Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, a professor of economics, and Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance and African Studies at Duke University in Durham. His academic work focuses on economics, contemporary African philosophy, and epistemology. He is the author of essays, novels, short stories, and plays such as Afrotopia (2016), Traces (2021), Les Lieux qu’habitent mes rêves (2022), and La Fabrique du présent (2026). In 2018, he co-authored with Bénédicte Savoy the report on the restitution of African heritage looted from Africa during the colonial era.