From Negritude to Post‐Africanism
2010; Routledge; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09528821003722108
ISSN1475-5297
Autores Tópico(s)Agriculture and Rural Development Research
ResumoToday Africa and the world have forgotten Negritude. The fault lies partly with Negritude, partly with those quick to pigeonhole the whole of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s philosophy as mere Negritude. To preserve the living sparks of Senghor’s thought apart from ideologically defunct Negritude, it is necessary to distinguish two doctrines, namely, official Negritude or cultural nationalism, and Senghorism, here defined as a discourse of Africa’s full embrace of modernity. Post‐Africanism, a new concept, has been deployed to re‐actualise Senghorism as a technique vital to Africa’s active modernisation. After all the self‐serving conspiracy theories of Africa’s fate in global modernity have been refuted, Post‐Africanism emerges to chart a new course for an African renaissance.
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