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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   KNOWLEDGE, SUBALTERNANCE AND THE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM. THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF AFRICA BASED ON AFRICAN THINKING / SAVOIRS, SUBALTERNANCE ET QUÊTE DE LA LIBERTÉ. RÉFLEXION SUR LE DEVENIR DE L’AFRIQUE À PARTIR DE LA PENSÉE AFRICAINE.

Authors:  EMMANUEL M. BANYWESIZE.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Knowledge, Subalternance and the Search for Freedom. Thoughts on the Future of Africa Based on African Thinking. This article applies itself to establish three theses. In knowledge produced by some Westerners on Africa it gives a tracery of procedures of subalternance of Africa (and Africans), its (their) invention according to epistemic codes, politico‐economic interests and the anthropological specimens of a peculiar place defined as the awakened Look to all the correspondence. Born in the context of the western modernity, African thought has contributed to the return of the African in the thinking humanity and in history, fertilized the emancipation movements of colonized countries and accompanied the political organization of the continent. By taking care of the geopolitics of knowledge and the theory of the universal destination of property, it shoes how Africa gets involved on the way of freedom.

Keywords: African thought, Postcolonial studies, African philosophy, globalization, epistemology, social sciences, liberty
 
         
     
         
         
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