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Title:African being and cultural project
Author:Stone, Leonard
Year:2012
Periodical:Journal of Contemporary African Studies (ISSN 0258-9001)
Volume:30
Issue:3
Pages:483-498
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:black consciousness
African identity
philosophy
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589001.2012.703835
Abstract:This article examines aspects of African culture seen as projects from an existentialist perspective and seeks to make a robust contribution to African studies and in particular interdisciplinary African studies. It offers a focus on the interiorization of African cultural project-as-text as an upsurge of being; interiorization(s) of being projects of African being and consciousness. This study on African subjectivity situates the African cultural constituency within a specific existentialist schematic: the African for itself in the form of cultural project-as-text, a reflective black consciousness, the black 'I' or African being-with-others in the form of cultural projects-as-texts, a self-reflective conscious of black consciousness, the black 'we'-subject, 'us', and lastly African being-for-ourselves Black existentialist philosophy is predicated on the liberation of all black people from oppression. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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