Artikeln presenterar sex inflytelserika afrikanska tänkare som bidrar till att omforma hur vi förstår världen, särskilt genom att utmana västerländska kunskapstraditioner och perspektiv. Den lyfter fram hur dessa intellektuella, inom områden som filosofi, historia och politik, har arbetat med frågor om identitet, kolonialt arv och kunskapsproduktion. Centralt är kritiken av hur Afrika historiskt har framställts i globala diskurser och behovet av att återta och omdefiniera afrikanska perspektiv. Genom att visa på mångfalden i afrikanskt tänkande argumenterar artikeln för att dessa idéer inte bara är relevanta för Afrika, utan erbjuder viktiga insikter för att förstå globala samhällsfrågor och alternativa sätt att tänka kring modernitet och utveckling.

The article introduces six influential African thinkers whose ideas help reshape our understanding of the world by challenging dominant Western frameworks of knowledge. It highlights their contributions across fields such as philosophy, history, and politics, with a focus on themes like identity, colonial legacy, and knowledge production. Central to the discussion is the critique of how Africa has historically been represented in global discourse and the importance of reclaiming and redefining African perspectives. By showcasing the diversity and depth of African intellectual traditions, the article argues that these thinkers offer valuable insights not only for Africa but for addressing broader global issues and rethinking concepts of modernity and development.

Academic integrity remains a critical pillar of higher education, yet the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) presents new challenges and opportunities for universities. This study examines how Swedish higher education institutions, particularly Stockholm University, navigate the evolving relationship between academic integrity and AI technologies suchas chatbots. While traditional concerns about plagiarism persist, the study highlights ashift towards preventive strategies rather than punitive measures, aligning with broader institutional efforts to foster a culture of integrity. Through a mixed-methods approach, this research draws upon survey data from students who participated in an online academic integrity course, as well as written reflections from students discussing the ethical implications of AI-assisted learning. The findings reveal that students largely recognise the importance of academic integrity, yet they grapple with the role of AI in academic work. Some view AI tools as valuable aids for writing and research, while others express concerns about ethical boundaries and citation practices. The study employs a phenomenographic perspective to explore students’ reasoning and evolving attitudes towards AI and integrity. The results indicate a pragmatic approach within Swedish universities, balancing AI’s integration with ethical guidelines. The study also underscores the limitations of AI-detection tools and the necessity of clear policies regarding AI usage. Additionally, it suggests that fostering academic integrity should involve collaboration between students, educators, and writing centres, rather than relying solely on rule enforcement. Ultimately, this research argues for a redefinition of academic integrity in the digital age – one that embraces AI’s potential while maintaining rigorous academic standards. By promoting AI literacy, transparent guidelines, and ethical discussions, universities can equip students with the critical skills needed to navigate AI-assisted education responsibly.

The awarding of the 2025 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award to Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen highlights a broader transformation in contemporary children's literature. Far from relying on conventional moral lessons or linear storytelling, Klassen’s works are characterized by minimalist illustrations, subtle humor, ambiguity, and a sophisticated understanding of the child reader. His books invite interpretation rather than imposing clear-cut messages, reflecting a growing recognition of children's capacity to engage with complex emotions and ethical dilemmas. This article examines how Klassen’s international success exemplifies evolving trends in children's publishing, where artistic experimentation, visual literacy, and narrative openness increasingly challenge traditional expectations. By situating his work within the wider landscape of contemporary children's literature, the article argues that the recognition of Klassen signals a shift toward more nuanced and intellectually demanding forms of storytelling for young audiences. Such developments suggest a redefinition of children's literature as a space where creativity, uncertainty, and critical thinking are valued as much as entertainment and education.

Artikeln analyserar legosoldaten Bob Denard som en central figur i efterkrigstidens afrikanska statskupper och placerar hans verksamhet i ett bredare historiskt och geopolitiskt sammanhang. Genom hans återkommande ingripanden – särskilt i Komorerna – visar texten hur legosoldatverksamhet fungerade som ett informellt verktyg i den postkoloniala maktpolitiken, ofta i gråzonen mellan statligt godkännande och officiell förnekelse.

Artikeln belyser hur Denards aktioner inte kan förstås som isolerade äventyr, utan som del av ett system präglat av Françafrique, kalla krigets logik och västliga säkerhetsintressen. Mercenarismen framträder som ett sätt att externalisera våld och påverka politiska utfall utan formellt ansvar.

Slutligen kopplas detta historiska arv till dagens situation, där privata militära aktörer åter spelar en betydande roll i Afrika. Artikeln visar därmed hur Denards bana illustrerar en kontinuitet i användningen av icke-statliga våldsaktörer – från postkoloniala interventioner till dagens omstridda säkerhetsarrangemang – och hur detta arv fortsätter att prägla afrikanska staters politiska instabilitet.

Community microgrids, as illustrated throughout this chapter, offer more than a decentralized technological solution—they constitute a political and institutional innovation in energy governance. By enabling citizens to act not only as consumers or prosumers, but as co-decision-makers, microgrids can redistribute power within energy systems and align local infrastructures with collective values of sustainability, equity, and resilience. However, this potential is neither automatic nor evenly realized. As the case studies show, the democratic capacity of microgrids is contingent upon enabling institutional frameworks, sustained citizen engagement, and access to technical and financial resources. Tools such as referendums, participatory budgeting, and cooperative governance demonstrate how democratic energy transitions can be rooted in both formal and informal civic practices. Yet challenges remain: regulatory fragmentation, infrastructural inequalities, and technocratic capture can all undermine inclusive participation. Moreover, the integration of microgrids into broader smart city agendas raises critical questions about the balance between efficiency and equity. Without safeguards for transparency, public control, and socio-spatial justice, digital infrastructures risk reinforcing existing asymmetries rather than transforming them. To advance energy democracy in Europe, future research and policy must focus on institutional innovation that combines technical decentralization with deep forms of civic empowerment. This includes supporting hybrid governance models, strengthening local capacity, and ensuring that energy transitions remain attentive to questions of justice, representation, and pluralism. Community microgrids are not a universal solution, but when grounded in participatory frameworks, they can play a central role in reimagining energy as a common good. Following Latour’s conceptualization, these infrastructures should be seen not as passive tools, but as actants within complex socio-technical assemblages—entities that shape behaviors, institutional logics, and democratic possibilities. As such, they are not only instruments for implementing democratic values but active participants in producing them.

Cette recension examine Substance et altérité. Pour une ontologie relationnelle du risque de Buata Malela, ouvrage qui propose de réhabiliter la notion de substance sans revenir aux métaphysiques essentialistes. L’auteur montre que le sujet ne peut être pensé indépendamment de l’altérité, mais qu’il ne se dissout pas non plus dans le seul jeu des relations. À partir d’un dialogue avec Frantz Fanon, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu et Achille Mbembe, Buata Malela élabore une ontologie relationnelle où la rencontre avec l’autre constitue le fondement même de la subjectivité.

La recension met en évidence la manière dont l’ouvrage déconstruit les logiques coloniales de l’assignation identitaire et critique les formes contemporaines de réduction de l’altérité. Elle souligne également que la relation ne saurait être pensée comme une simple harmonie, mais comme une prise de risque impliquant vulnérabilité, transformation et absence de garantie de réciprocité. Inscrivant cette réflexion dans la continuité des travaux de Buata Malela sur les littératures africaines et diasporiques, la recension conclut que cet ouvrage renouvelle les débats actuels sur le sujet, l’altérité et les philosophies africaines contemporaines en proposant une éthique exigeante de la co-responsabilité.

This review examines Substance et altérité. Pour une ontologie relationnelle du risque by Buata Malela, a work that seeks to rehabilitate the notion of substance without returning to essentialist metaphysics. Malela argues that subjectivity can neither be conceived independently of alterity nor dissolved entirely into relations and discursive constructions. Drawing on the works of Frantz Fanon, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu, and Achille Mbembe, he develops a relational ontology in which the encounter with the other constitutes the very condition of subject formation.

The review highlights how the book deconstructs colonial logics of identity assignment while criticizing contemporary conceptions that reduce alterity to sameness or mere difference. It emphasizes that relationality is understood not as harmonious coexistence but as a risk involving vulnerability, transformation, and the absence of any guarantee of reciprocity. Situating this philosophical reflection within the continuity of Malela's previous work on African and diasporic literatures, the review argues that Substance et altérité makes a significant contribution to current debates on subjectivity, alterity, and contemporary African philosophy by advancing an ethics of co-responsibility grounded in relationality.

Cette recension examine Substance et altérité. Pour une ontologie relationnelle du risque de Buata Malela, ouvrage qui propose de réhabiliter la notion de substance sans revenir aux métaphysiques essentialistes. L’auteur montre que le sujet ne peut être pensé indépendamment de l’altérité, mais qu’il ne se dissout pas non plus dans le seul jeu des relations. À partir d’un dialogue avec Frantz Fanon, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu et Achille Mbembe, Buata Malela élabore une ontologie relationnelle où la rencontre avec l’autre constitue le fondement même de la subjectivité.

La recension met en évidence la manière dont l’ouvrage déconstruit les logiques coloniales de l’assignation identitaire et critique les formes contemporaines de réduction de l’altérité. Elle souligne également que la relation ne saurait être pensée comme une simple harmonie, mais comme une prise de risque impliquant vulnérabilité, transformation et absence de garantie de réciprocité. Inscrivant cette réflexion dans la continuité des travaux de Buata Malela sur les littératures africaines et diasporiques, la recension conclut que cet ouvrage renouvelle les débats actuels sur le sujet, l’altérité et les philosophies africaines contemporaines en proposant une éthique exigeante de la co-responsabilité.

This review examines Substance et altérité. Pour une ontologie relationnelle du risque by Buata Malela, a work that seeks to rehabilitate the notion of substance without returning to essentialist metaphysics. Malela argues that subjectivity can neither be conceived independently of alterity nor dissolved entirely into relations and discursive constructions. Drawing on the works of Frantz Fanon, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu, and Achille Mbembe, he develops a relational ontology in which the encounter with the other constitutes the very condition of subject formation.

The review highlights how the book deconstructs colonial logics of identity assignment while criticizing contemporary conceptions that reduce alterity to sameness or mere difference. It emphasizes that relationality is understood not as harmonious coexistence but as a risk involving vulnerability, transformation, and the absence of any guarantee of reciprocity. Situating this philosophical reflection within the continuity of Malela's previous work on African and diasporic literatures, the review argues that Substance et altérité makes a significant contribution to current debates on subjectivity, alterity, and contemporary African philosophy by advancing an ethics of co-responsibility grounded in relationality.

Cette recension analyse l’ouvrage de Buata Malela, L’Afrique-monde II. Géopolitique, cultures et imaginaires du riz (Anibwe, 2026), qui renouvelle les réflexions sur la souveraineté alimentaire en l’inscrivant dans une perspective géopolitique, historique et culturelle. En faisant du riz un « fait social total », l’auteur met en évidence les continuités entre colonialisme, néocolonialisme et mondialisation à travers les mécanismes de dépossession alimentaire et les formes contemporaines de dépendance. L’ouvrage montre que les politiques coloniales ont profondément reconfiguré les systèmes agricoles africains tout en suscitant des résistances dont les expressions historiques, littéraires et culturelles sont finement analysées. Croisant histoire, sociologie, anthropologie et études littéraires, Buata Malela propose une conception relationnelle de l’autonomie et ouvre la voie à une « prospective de la souveraineté » fondée sur la valorisation des ressources locales et la maîtrise des interdépendances. Cette recension souligne l’originalité et la portée théorique d’un ouvrage qui fait de l’Afrique un observatoire privilégié des enjeux contemporains liés à l’alimentation, à la culture, aux imaginaires et aux rapports de pouvoir.

This review examines Buata Malela’s L’Afrique-monde II. Géopolitique, cultures et imaginaires du riz (Anibwe, 2026), a work that redefines debates on food sovereignty by placing them within a geopolitical, historical, and cultural framework. By treating rice as a “total social fact,” Malela reveals the continuities between colonialism, neo-colonialism, and globalization through the mechanisms of food dispossession and the enduring forms of dependency they have produced. The book demonstrates how colonial policies profoundly reshaped African agricultural systems while simultaneously generating forms of resistance that are explored through historical, literary, and cultural perspectives. Drawing on history, sociology, anthropology, and literary studies, Malela develops a relational conception of autonomy and advances a “prospective of sovereignty” grounded in the valorization of local resources and the management of interdependencies. This review highlights the originality and theoretical significance of a work that positions Africa as a privileged vantage point from which to understand contemporary issues of food, culture, collective imaginaries, and power relations.

The article examines the evolving security and diplomatic partnership between Canada and Sweden amid heightened geopolitical competition in the Arctic. It highlights how both countries are expanding cooperation beyond traditional defence ties—through joint exercises, strategic dialogues and bilateral initiatives—to address shared challenges such as Russian assertiveness, climate-driven Arctic access, and the need for diversified defence and economic relationships. This redefinition of northern security involves deeper integration in military preparedness, technological development, and multilateral engagement within NATO and Arctic governance frameworks, signaling a shift toward more proactive Northern cooperation. 

Le rapport préconise une accélération de la transition climatique à l’échelle mondiale, en conciliant compétitivité économique, complémentarité internationale – notamment avec la Chine – et coopération. Le commerce ouvert des technologies vertes peut être évalué en fonction de ses avantages climatiques à l’échelle mondiale. La transition devient ainsi un levier pour la sécurité et la paix, où les stratégies militaires sont remplacées par des alliances climatiques.