You Have No Past, No History: Philosophy, Literature and the Re-Invention of Africa

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dc.contributor.authorAndindilile, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-22T19:00:58Z
dc.date.available2016-09-22T19:00:58Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-31
dc.description.abstractAfrica has been a victim of misrepresentation since the advent of colonialism. This paper, which is largely based on textual analysis, examines how African philosophy and literature intersect in an attempt to bring about a better understanding of Africa in both the West and Africa itself. The study argues that the intersection of literature and philosophy in African literary discourse we witness is an inevitable consequence of the historical events (including colonialism) that conspired to condemn the continent—as a body—to subjection in the Western world of thought, and the response that this reality solicited from Africans facing the challenges of the Western engineered modernity. The study examines the writing of some of the pioneering modern African writers who have tried to undermine ideas propagated by philosophers such as Hegel—in a typical Eurocentric tradition—to undermine Africa, a continent they hardly understood. The objective is to show that through literature, African writers were able to reveal more about African thought than what has been readily acknowledged.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAndindilile, M., 2016. You have no past, no history: Philosophy, literature and the re-invention of Africa. International Journal of English and Literature, 7(8), pp.127-134.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5897/IJEL2015.0729
dc.identifier.issn2141-2626
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4261
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Journalsen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectAfrican literatureen_US
dc.subjectAfrican philosophyen_US
dc.subjectIntersectionen_US
dc.subjectAfrican discourseen_US
dc.titleYou Have No Past, No History: Philosophy, Literature and the Re-Invention of Africaen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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