Beyond the Neocolonial: Africa and the Dialectics of Human Emancipation

This book consists of an attempt to clarify the character of an emancipatory politics as what might be called a 'displaced exception' in Africa both in political theory and in political practice, whereas state (political) subjectivities, by their very nature, reproduce given social placement. Already in 1961, in The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon exhorts us (his posthumous comrades) to abandon Eurocentric thinking and to reconnect with dialectical thought in order as he puts it to 'work out new concepts' and he insists that 'if we want humanity to advance a step farther ... then we must invent and we must make discoveries' (Fanon, The Wretched p.254).