Reinvention Of Africa

Question 1

What are the stages of Africa’s reinvention?

Answer 1

1. NA as a part of the classical Mediterranean
2. The birth of Islam and is growth birth and south of the Sahara
3. The connection with Africa and the Semitic peoples (Greek, Romans)
4. Impact of European capitalist penetration and colonization
5. Africa’s globalization

Question 2

What is the history of how Africa has been defined

Answer 2

Africa has always been defined in terms of a product of its interaction with other civilizations but it now reinvented itself at the center of history

Question 3

What does Africa originate from according to said and mudimbe

Answer 3

For both it’s the concept of otherness: invention of the orient on said and
Invention of Africa on mufimbe

Question 4

What did the reinvention of Africa come from?

Answer 4

Globalization of Africa and making Africa the origin of all live

Question 5

What did reinvention also include?

Answer 5

Recognizing Africa’s triple heritage: African history, Islam and western influence a transition form just Islam and African history

Question 6

What are some aspects in the reinvention of Africa?

Answer 6

Retrafitionalization: boosted by said and mudimbe and African history
A new cultural nationalism that appeared in the form of romantic primitivism (senghor) and romantic Gloriana
Reinvention of Africa as black because although the term was always part of African identity it was merely a form of differentiation form the arabs but was then reinvented as a response to European racial ignorance

Question 7

What is another mode of reinvention?

Answer 7

Panafricanism: which is all of Africa regardless of the borders realizing that to Europeans they were all just gonna be blacks nd thus they were all just gonna be Africa
Africentricity: considering everyone else in terms of African history and stuff