Abstract
In her reflections on colonization, Simone Weil contrasts France's narrative of itself for itself with the way it is viewed by the world under its imperial yoke. In her Écrits historiques et politiques, she writes that " from the decentralized position offered by the Empire (...) France is not, in the eyes of most of her subjects, the democratic, just and generous nation that she is in the eyes of so many French people, average and otherwise ". My contribution explores, beyond this particular example presented by Simone Weil, the view of Europe more generally from " the off-center position " African, before posing the question of a future " axis " between a Europe that is inventing itself and an Africa today engaged in the refoundation of the pan-African ideal.
