Given the level of changes going on in the world, here is an effort to delineate a possible approach to understanding African Identity.
Paper long abstract:
The African identity has remained a very contested issue. The struggle to define an African has moved from the colonial oppositional approach and the self assertive philosophical model to the recent new methodological approach of hybridization, Afrofuturism, Afropolitanism etc. The reality is that there is hardly any consensus among philosophers on what constitutes African identity and her future. I intend to analyze these philosophical arguments. The aim is to query the philosophical implications of these views in relation to the future of African social and normative order.