The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the
academia, is largely influenced by Africa s response to
colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to
considerably reactive, and lacks forceful moral incentives for
social critical consciousness and nation-building. Quite on the
contrary, it allows especially African political leaders to
luxuriate in the delusions of moral rectitude, imploring, at will,
the evil of imperialism as a buffer to their disregard of their
people. This book acknowledges the social and psychological
devastations of colonialism on the African world. It, however,
argues that the totality of African intellectual response to
colonialism and Western imperialism is equally, if not more,
damaging to the African world. In what ways does the average
African leader, indeed, the average African, judge and respond to
his world? How does he conceive of his responsibility towards his
community and society? The most obvious impact of African response
to colonialism is the implicit search for a pristine, innocent
paradigm in, for instance, literary, philosophical, social,
political and gender studies. This search has its own moral
implication in the sense that it makes the taking of responsibility
on individual and social level highly difficult. Focusing on the
moral impact of responses to colonialism in Africa and the African
Diaspora, this book analyzes the various manifestations of
delusions of moral innocence that has held the African leadership
from the onerous task of bearing responsibility for their
countries; it argues that one of the ways to recast the African
leaders responsibility towards Africa is to let go, on the one
hand, the gaze of the West, and on the other, of the search for the
innocent African experience and cultures. Relying on the insights
of thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony
Appiah, Achille Mbembe and Wolgang Welsch, this book suggests new
approaches to interpreting African experiences. It discusses select
African works of fiction as a paradigm for new interpretations of
African experiences.
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