Paper short abstract:

Africa has been, at great expense, the foil of the other in the West’s perception and care of self. Modernity, in thought and praxis upholds the status quo. Post-Modernity re-imagines a loosening of the noose around Africa’s neck, to render justice as a relentless task in the democracy to come.

Paper long abstract:

This paper re-imagines through post Modernity, particularly Jacques Derrida’s version of Deconstruction, the opening as possibility, beckoning from the future, tasks that awaits: the re-making of Africa, not according to some pre-deluvian, mythological image, nor some pie-in-the-sky Mirage. But rather Africa, coming into its own time, reining in all its human potentials to build in freedom, a human home for the Self that is defined by Africa, but that is at once universally human. This task primarily is the re-conception of difference that divides In binary terms. It will be the attempt to render justice. It will be an endlessly impossible task.