Mbembe’s Matrix and the Matri-Archive: ‘The Little Secret’ to Conjuring Away the Postcolonial Spell
Achille Mbembe shows how the West’s denigrating projections on Africa as a chaotic void perpetrated a founding epistemic violence. The matrix of Black Reason, Blackness, and The Black worked systematically to justify colonialism and undermine African subjectivity. By maintaining its grip over the ps...
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2024
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2024, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 209-221 |
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B postcolonial critique B Morality B Africa B Race B political activity B Philosophy |
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