África allende la oscuridad heredada del imaginario occidental Una toma de conciencia

Abstract

African History, as well as Human History, implies a particular kind of political awareness. Th e discussion about how the knowledge about Africa is produced, by who is it produced and which are the objectives is absolutely relevant to the position it takes in our minds and in the international order. The emergent Africa deserves at least equal attention as the poor Africa on the verge of death, heir to the western imaginary. To off er it its own place would contributes to deproblematizing the continent, which is desirable not to dispel darkness but to attire the light