Can the Decolonization of African Philosophy and Economy be a Reality?

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19160866

Clifford Mhlanyukwa Duma (Department of Sociology, University of Zululand, South Africa)

All forms of colonialism inevitably leave a lasting legacy. The Europeans colonized the African continent, and this social, political, and economic system altered the behaviour of Africans and the African landscape. Academics of various sorts, anthropologists, legal-sociologists, post-colonialists, various educators, are making demands “to do something about” the coloniser society, to penetrate the foreclosed Ness of the theme. Acting regarding the colonial past and present may be defined as rewriting history and committing genocide or denying that there is a colonial past and present, and devaluing knowledge, which is indeed an insult to the casualised cultural ideas and practices. Decolonisation means the end of colonialism. The institutional arrangement of colonialism is known to have had a profound impact on later economic development. Thus, it is an interesting political event to a political economist. This paper looks at how colonialism affected the colonised societies through four imaginations: pre-colonial, colonial encounter, and colonial era. The paper also aims to study the fragmented past, make further invitations to understand the myths offered as well, and demonstrate the fluidity between the past and the present.