TY - BOOK AU - De jong,Ferdinand AU - Quinn,Brian AU - Bach,Jean-Nicolas TI - The ruins of utopia: The École William Ponty and the Université du Futur africain (University of the African Future)   PY - 2014///. N1 - 41 N2 - The site today known as Sebi Ponty outside of Dakar, Senegal has twice hosted large-scale educational initiatives, L’École William Ponty and, more recently, L’Université du Futur africain. Both were designed to spur increased economic development and both fell short on their promise, leaving behind a dilapidated infrastructure. Excavating the utopian Afro-futures by which these projects were envisioned and the Afro-nostalgias they have generated, we discern a palimpsest of temporalities in Sebi Ponty UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-politique-africaine-2014-3-page-71?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -