ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to study how cosmopolitanism, which is the desire to make the world a better place in which people acknowledge one another's humanity and rights to be free and prosperous, permeates key black political and transnational writings produced between the two world wars. It explores the contributions of the selected black intellectuals to cosmopolitan and transnational literary and political sites of resistances in which they established direct or circuitous relationships with one another through their close interests in the metropole's colonial relationships with Senegal. The book discusses the black intellectuals oscillated between cosmopolitanism and radicalism, suggesting that black solidarity was not a uniformous and linear tradition. France's difficult path to cosmopolitanism is also traceable to the two world wars when its inferiorization of tirailleurs and other Africans mobilized many black intellectuals against colonialism.
