Sortir de la grande nuit: essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée, by Achille Mbembe
This review presents to the Brazilian reader Sortir de la grande nuit, a work by the Cameroonian political scientist Achille Mbembe. Belonging to the new generation of African thinkers, Achille Mbembe advocates for a worldview which he calls afropolitanism, offering an alternative to negritude and p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Anos 90 (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/49367 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/49367 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Achille Mbembe Afropolitanismo África contemporânea História Identidade africana Afropolitanism Contemporary Africa |
| Sumario: | This review presents to the Brazilian reader Sortir de la grande nuit, a work by the Cameroonian political scientist Achille Mbembe. Belonging to the new generation of African thinkers, Achille Mbembe advocates for a worldview which he calls afropolitanism, offering an alternative to negritude and panafricanism. Mbembe provides an analysis of current social and cultural situation in Africa that takes into account both political ideas and theories and his own autobiographical narratives, from his youth in Cameroon to his experiences as a student and Professor in France, the United States of America, and South Africa. In addition, the author discusses the influence of different African intellectuals, such as Frantz Fanon and Leopold Sedar Senghor, on his own work. These myriad experiences and readings are harmonized into a dynamic view of Africa as a place of transit of diverse peoples and cultures, thus avoiding universalist postulates and rigid racial conceptions. |
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