Marcien Towa - de la reprobation des mouvements anticolonialistes a l’hermeneutique du sens de la revolution philosophique en Afrique

Towa says the era of identity claims is over. The negritude and its extension of ethno-philosophy are obsolete anti-colonialist movements for the rehabilitation of the identity and civilization of black peoples, and even philosophical development in present-day Africa. Thus, instead of these demands, he substitutes a real revolution, because he thinks that to pretend to an emergence of Africa amounts to an overtaking of these economic movements by an awareness of ourselves. However, this awareness in question requires the African to be bold and courageous, since he must first make a radical break with his past, the only way for him to free himself from the dictatorship of the latter while remaining identical, and then he must open himself to the West for the appropriation of the secret of its power, which it must inevitably introduce into its own culture, not simply as a graft, but rather with the aim of completely revolutionizing it in order to be able to compete with the Westerners in a competitive civilizational world. Appropriately, the spirit of this article aims to demonstrate not only how, according to Towa, anti-colonialist movements would have been a failure for the rehabilitation of the anthropological dignity and cultural authenticity of black peoples, but also to present the scope of such a revolution in Africa.