Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2014
Negritude and the Quest for an African Identity
Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony
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The waves of slavery, racism and colonialism that swept across Africa left the identity of the African in disarray. In a bid to recapture the identity of the African, Senghor used the concept of Negritude to symbolize what the black man stands for. He defines negritude as the whole complex of civilized values, cultural, economic, social, political which characterize the black peoples, or more precisely, the Negro–African world. The focus of this paper is to highlight Senghor’s concept of negritude and its dimensions: cultural, social negritude, economic negritude and political negritude. It also tries to evaluate how much of Africa’s identity Senghor’s idea of negritude is able to represent.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijar
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Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony Negritude and the Quest for an African Identity Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.8 August 2014
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