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The Distorted Images Of African Continent: A Heideggerian Interpretation
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THE SCOPE OF STUDY
The
scope of this project covers the whole of African continent, especially
the black Africans, bearing in mind that some Africans like Egyptians
are white in complexion. It covers the whole of African continent,
because the word “Africa†already connotes negative undertones for most
Western minds. Hear what was written on “milestonesâ€, December 26, 2005
‘Time magazine’, vol 166 no.25, captioned “The persons of the yearâ€,
with reports by Illa Garger, about Africa 13 years ago:
Africa has
become the basket case of the planet, the “third world of the third
world’’, a vast continent in free fall…. Africa has a genius for
extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously
connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse.
Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more
luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable.
Africa-sub-Saharan Africa, at least – has begun to look like an immense
illustration of chaos theory, although some hope is forming on the
margins. Much of the continent has turned into a battleground of
contending doom . . .7
Even though, the reporter might have some
reservations (Egypt or some nations of North Africa), he painted the
whole continent black. Therefore the scope of this project is the
African continent. But distinctions will be made when necessary.
METHODOLOGY
The
method of this project is expository, analytical and hermeneutical. By
expository and analytical method, I will carefully expose the varied
distorted images of Africans, starting from the ancient period to the
contemporary period, with analysis when necessary. And by the method of
hermeneutics, I will interpretatively unmask these distorted images of
Africans using Martin Heidegger’s concept of “phenomenology†in order to
see what lies behind them.
1 Ezine Newsletter.African Images, (November 2002-african Insights) p.1
2 Ibid
3 Ibid
4 T. Serequerberham, TheHermeneutics of African philosophy: horizon and discourse (New York: Rout ledge, 1994) p.15.
5 O. Boateng, “How Africa developed Europe, U.S.Aâ€, New African (Oct. 2005 No.444) p.22
6 T. Chardin, The Future of Man (London:Editions du Seuil, 1959) p.95.
7I, Garger, Persons of the Year, Time Magazine, Dec.2005.
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