AFROCENTRIC PARADIGMS: INTELLECTUALS AND A WRITING FROM THE HISTORY OF BLACK AFRICA

Abstract

The history of Africa of Black Africa up to the beginning of the 20th century was a reference point for European history, limited to what concerns the great European conquests, the maritime development of the fifteenth century, the enslavement of the Blacks The silence on the existence of an Africa before the fifteenth century and after the colonization of supposition can be interpreted as untruth, fallacy or simply invisibility. Thus, thinking of simplistic interpretations and analyzes, African historians, imbued with the movement called Afrocentrism, proposed a rewriting of the history of Africa. A central era highlights a history of the African continent, from the state and African. The idea is not to reject like the productions of non-African historians, but rather the possibility of testing the measure of those who have no voice for this question. The same was presented as findings of froccentric movement and as African epistemologies, as the reinvention key and political, social and intellectual of the African historians in the 1960s. Thus, a famous phrase of the historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo (2010): 31) , "Africa has History", "History of Africa". Thus, the present article aims to present a brief presentation, definition and development of the concept of Afrocentric and African formulated by the African-American intellectuals, between the decades of 1950 to 1960, that became the means of development of African historiography.