Abstract
No one is better placed than African philosophers - for reasons that have to do with their multilingual situation - to experience the fact that we always think in and from a language, i.e., that the idiom in which we express ourselves inclines (but does not require) us to think in a certain direction. Philosophy, then, is always "in languages". My aim is to show that to become aware of this state of affairs is to know how to think between languages, from language to language, and thus to think as a translator. I will argue that this is one of the tasks of the philosopher, particularly in Africa.
