Décolonisation et renaissance de l’Afrique. Une lecture analytique de civilisation ou Barbariede Cheikh Anta Diop

Abstract

The African continent, considered the cradle of humanity. This reference allows us to say that it provided humanity through the Egyptian-Nubian civilization, an almost universal civilization supported by the development of science, technology, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, chemistry, metaphysics and politics. This pivotal era will be ruined by the invasion of the Greeks who will appropriate this epistemological substrate, hence the myth of the Greek Miracle. Africa remained in an identity crisis; its history has been falsified by Western historians for ideological, imperialist and colonialist purposes. The African continent has experienced colonization since the Berlin Conference which will give rise to the balkanization of Africa. Africans thus found themselves alienated by Western imperialist powers. African identity was thus exposed to erosion. After the wars of independence, the continent will experience an upheaval in the situation, a historic turning point will mark this continent for the rehabilitation of its identity, its dignity, its freedom, and its independence. To establish movements such as Pan-Africanism, Negritude, Afrocentrism, African intellectuals will conceptualize decolonization. Imperative condition for the independence and rebirth of the Black continent. It is in this perspective that the subject addressed in this work falls, namely, Decolonization and Renaissance of Africa. An analytical reading of Civilization or barbarism by Cheikh Anta Diop. He draws from the source of Egyptology and the African Renaissance movement. It is a question of contributing to the clarification of the problem of the foundation of the African renaissance from African antiquity. In other words, it is a question of examining the impact of the emerging Egyptian-Nubian civilization on the new and emerging Africa. As such, the epistemological substrate constitutes the work of Cheikh Anta Diop is relevant in this regard. The method used in this work is an analytical and critical method. It allows us to account for the implications and limits of Cheikh Anta Diop's thought in the decolonization and African renaissance movements.