Felwine Sarr’s scholarly work in economics, social sciences, and the humanities aims to draw attention to ideas and scientific knowledge from the global South, especially Africa. The Senegalese researcher will hold the first Berlin Southern Theory Lecture on December 11, 2019, in the foyer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Dahlem. Felwine Sarr, a professor of economics at the University Gaston Berger (Senegal), suggests a change of perspective. He believes that African countries should stop measuring themselves against Euro-American concepts of progress and modernity. Instead, they should establish their own theories and rely on local values in order to shift the direction in which African societies are moving. The Berlin Southern Theory Lecture series contributes to a global exchange of knowledge that redresses lingering postcolonial asymmetries in order to diversify theoretical debates in the social sciences and humanities. The lectures are organized by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin together with the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. Felwine Sarr will hold his lecture “Rewriting the Humanities from Africa: for an Ecology of Knowledge” in English. The Berlin Southern Theory Lectures are free and open to the public.