Africanocéanité

How might Africa be understood through its oceanic relationships?

THE THREAD OF THE DOSSIER

A question.
Evidence to bring together.

A neologism developed by Patrice Lebon in his contribution published by Menara. An invitation to connect territories, circulations, identities and the material conditions of sovereignty.

Reference text
The contribution published by Menara provides the documentary point of departure.
A book in progress
A substantial work devoted to Africanocéanité is being written. No publication date has been announced.
Open discussion
The concept benefits from examination against the economic, historical and institutional realities of the territories concerned.

AN OBJECTION TO EXAMINE

An encompassing concept may obscure markedly different trajectories. Its value depends on what it enables us to understand and compare.

How might it be tested?

Identify cases in which this framework illuminates a decision, then cases that challenge it.

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Developments to follow

The works the author chooses to make public.
Research distinguishing circulation, dependency and the capacity to act.

Sources and dates appear in the linked documents and profiles. This list of questions does not announce automatic updating.

CONTRIBUTIONS & FURTHER READING

The texts
for further consideration.

Patrice Lebon · 19 October 2026

The West, at Last in the Dock

In response to Vijay Makhan, an inquiry into the distinction between alliance, political order and Western civilisation, and the accountability of power before the law it invokes.

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Menara · 1er September 2026

Mauritius and the making of an interfacial power in an age of contracted sovereignties

An account of Mauritian power through Chagos, Agalega, Port Louis, trade agreements and cables: how geography might be converted into the capacity to decide and value retained locally.

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Le Mauricien · 22 juil. 2026