IEA invites you to the dynamic urban city of Saint-Louis that sits 279 km to the north of Dakar. Novelist Ousmane Socé Diop says this three-hundred-year-old city of Saint-Louis in Senegal is recognizably “the centre of Senegalese elegance and taste”. A visit to Saint-Louis in Senegal takes you into a very dynamic universe of culture with a picturesque and calm side perfect for writing and research retreats.
IEA Saint-Louis’s creed is to be a centre of excellence for rethinking Africa and the world. This commitment comes from the spirit in Senegal’s new policy for higher education and research, a policy adopted on 13th August 2013 to leverage socio-economic development and be a factor for Africa’s integration.
Fulbright Fellow, John Edward Ellis at the IEA in Saint-Louis, Senegal.
Creative writing - The Institute for Advanced Study in Saint-Louis, Senegal is pleased to welcome his first Fulbright fellow in the academic community of Saint-Louis. The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, Senegal have established very close collaborative work through seminars and informal conversations. The city of Saint-Louis, Senegal is the ideal place for a creative nonfiction writing project described as a portray of the vivacity, the diversity and the complexity of West Africa through the length of the culture in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal. John Edward Ellis graduated from Saint-Mary's College of California in the United States with a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. He is also a professional writer and have over five years in teaching experience at the middle and high school level.
John Ellis : www.johnedwardellis.com
IEA invites you to the dynamic urban city of Saint-Louis that sits 279 km to the north of Dakar. Novelist Ousmane Socé Diop says this three-hundred-year-old city of Saint-Louis in Senegal is recognizably “the centre of Senegalese elegance and taste”. A visit to Saint-Louis in Senegal takes you into a very dynamic universe of culture with a picturesque and calm side perfect for writing and research retreats.
IEA Saint-Louis’s creed is to be a centre of excellence for rethinking Africa and the world. This commitment comes from the spirit in Senegal’s new policy for higher education and research, a policy adopted on 13th August 2013 to leverage socio-economic development and be a factor for Africa’s integration.
This is why IEA Saint-Louis in Senegal is inviting you to be an active player in this academic venture to help reposition Africa in the world by mobilizing the intelligentsia in a fruitful and critical dialogue with other thinkers in the world.
IEA Saint-Louis welcomes and encourages you to be innovative and creative in your efforts to understand Africa. Come with new concepts and theoretical approaches that suit the realities in African communities. Be daring as you contribute with the research community, in the words of historian Joseph Ki Zerbo, to “weave the mat on which African intellectuals must sit” to think Africa and the world.
More so, you will be contributing to achieve the goal of Professor Cheikh Anta Diop, after whom the Dakar University is named, which is: “Africa can once again become a centre for scientific initiatives and decisions instead of thinking she is doomed to sit on the backburner as the developed countries’ terrain for economic expansion”.
Lastly, joining IEA Saint-Louis in Senegal opens the doors for partnership with Gaston Berger University and other cultural stakeholders to strengthen the city of Saint Louis’ influence as a centre of excellence for research and education in Africa.