Norman Ajari

Norman Ajari is a philosopher specializing in critical race theory, social and political philosophy, and the history of Black Francophone and Anglophone thought. He has taught at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Villanova University in Philadelphia, and the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the executive board of the Frantz Fanon Foundation.

His work explores the ethical and political dimensions of the Black condition in modernity, through a body of thought that is both rigorously philosophical and engaged in contemporary debates on race, violence, and decolonization. He is the author of La Dignité ou la mort: Éthique et politique de la race (La Dignité ou la mort: Ethics and Politics of Race) (La Découverte, 2019); Noirceur: Race, genre, classe et pessimisme dans la pensée africaine-américaine au XXIe siècle (Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in Twenty-First-Century African American Thought) (Divergences, 2022); Où commence le racisme? (Where Does Racism Begin?) (with Marylin Maeso, Philosophie magazine Éditeur, 2023); and Manifeste afro-décolonial: Le Rêve oublié de la politique radicale noire (Afro-Decolonial Manifesto: The Forgotten Dream of Radical Black Politics) (Seuil, 2024). His latest book, Technofascisme: Le Nouveau rêve de la suprématie blanche (Technofascism: The New Dream of White Supremacy) (Météores, 2026), analyzes the archeofuturist ideology behind the project to restore racial and economic supremacy in Silicon Valley.