Remembering The Dismembered Continent: Essays By Ayi Kwei Armah

Description: Remembering The Dismembered Continent. THE AUTHOR: The Ayi Kwei Armah, author of , KMT, The Healers and other novels, as well as translator of Obenga's African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period, lives in Popenguine, Senegal. He has three children and one grandchild. THE TEXT: 1885, Berlin: European and American globalizers set up colonies that impoverished Africans by exporting raw resources to fuel European and American prosperity. 1960s: "Independent" Africa's rulers, far from uniting Africa to create prosperity by processing the continent's fabulous resources, opted to maintain the colonial system in return for loans and grants, while chanting Pan-Africanism at hotel conferences. In this destructive drift, a minority of lucid scholars, spearheaded by Cheikh Anta Diop and Thophile Obenga, argued that instead of following Europe and America, we'd do better to retrieve Africa's own multi-millenial heritage of philosophical and cultural values, the best of which, like Mat, centered on political unity and social justice, would be our surest guide into a regenerative future. These essays show exactly why. They also suggest in ways in which we can heed the call of our most creative thinkers, to prepare for the long-postponed rebirth of African society.

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Location: Richton Park, Illinois

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